THE PRODUCTION OF THE CHEESE IN SERTÃO SERGIPANO EXCHANGE OF HANDS: A MATTER OF GENDER

• Main Authors: Sônia de Souza Mendonça MENEZES, Maria Geralda de ALMEIDA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2008-12-01
• Series: Revista Raega: O Espaço Geográfico em Análise
• Subjects: identidade cultural; gênero; pecuária; políticas públicas
• Online Access: http://revistas.ufpr.br/raega/article/view/12677

Our aim in this study is to present the changes in rural areas of the Sertão Sergipano of San Francisco under the food system, highlighting the issue of gender in the process of the production of cheese. With the inclusion of public policies were introduced new practices providing a rapid deforestation of the original vegetation caatinga. Introduce itself grasses resistant to estiagem reducing itself agricultural activities as the production of foods: beans, cassava and maize. Expands to livestock by building financial resources released by the "state" in incessant search to achieve the modernization of agriculture. Alongside the changes in the environment, changes occur in the context of social relations and cultural practices. Traditionally the family farmers had to produce milk intended for self-consumption in the form in natura or producing derivatives such as cheese and homemade butter on the responsibility of women. With the advancement of livestock this activity becomes going to be the responsibility of the males in unique spaces, there are new types of networks are built and marketing. Keywords: cultural identity, gender, livestock, public policies.