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The family farmer seated territorialized in the Rio Grande do Sul more precisely in the Gaúcha Campaignim planted new productive-economic and social forms that transformed the landscape and constituted the territory of the settlements. The seated have sought to be integrated in to the productive process by new forms of production, organization, relationship with the environment, there covery of their knowledge and their autonomy on the basis of their culture and economic-social-political organization. These are meanings, strategies and actions that have marked the lands cape of settlements. The Gaúcho territory has reconfigured, the landscape of the Campaign has changed with the increasing concentration of settlements in the municipalities. It is the region of domination of the latifundium that has lost place for family farming, for Agroecology. They are seated family farmers engaged in the production of agroecological food and in the protection of the environment of the settlements of Agrarian Reform of south-west Rio-Grandense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the relationships between gender, agroecology and domestic and community economic practices based on reflections derived from the application of participatory research methodologies to women's economic organizations located in the Mata Mineira (MG, Brasil) region. The dialogue with the trajectories, life and work experiences of these women demonstrate the relevance of domestic and female extradomestic activities in structuring agroecology, in the composition of family income and in the material organization of life in rural communities. The innumerable achievements related to its organizational processes and the challenges presented to the maintenance and improvement of its activities bring us to the reflection the need to envisage a plurality of feminisms and that can be identified through the relations between gender, race/ethnicity, work and space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]