Banca de DEFESA: NATÁLIA FERNANDES DO NASCIMENTO

FAMILY AGRICULTURE AND GENDER IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PANDEMIC: A QUANTI-QUALI STUDY IN A REMOTE AREA OF NORTHEAST BRAZIL

Key words: Family Agriculture; Food and nutrition security; Genre; Pandemic

This research aims to analyze the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on issues of class, food and gender in family farming in a municipality in the interior of the Northeast. It consists of a cross-sectional study with a qualitative-quantitative approach with a descriptive and analytical nature from the perspective of the theoretical-methodological approach of dialectical materialism. The study will take place in Jaçanã, located in Rio Grande do Norte. It will consist of two phases, the first will include the documentary analysis of technical notes and official bulletins on measures aimed at family farming during the COVID-19 pandemic period, from April to October 2020 and April 2021 to October of 2021. These documents will be researched on the official websites of the Federation, the State and the Municipalities and will be decoded from the thematic analysis in the light of the Marxist dialectical perspective. In the second phase, we will carry out interviews with the representative of the municipal union of family agriculture and with the women farmers unionized in that union in Jaçanã-RN. Therefore, we will apply a semi-structured questionnaire divided into four modules: 1st) Identification; 2º) Socioeconomic Characterization of family farmers; 3rd) Information on Food and Nutritional Security, based on the Brazilian Scale of Food Insecurity (EBIA). This scale is a collection instrument validated by the Brazilian population to classify families in situations of mild, moderate or severe food insecurity and; the 4th) comprises discursive gender issues in the context of family farming during the pandemic. To analyze the quantitative results, the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) for Windows version 20.0 will be used with descriptive statistical analysis. Qualitative data will be analyzed using thematic analysis. With the results of the study, it will be possible to verify the officially documented measures for the protection of family farming and inform the food and nutritional security of women farmers and the challenges faced by them during the COVID-19 pandemic.