Peasant Women’s Roles in Agroecology Facing Neo-Extractivism in Latin America

This article addresses the first results of my Ph. D research project on women practicing small-scale farming and their potential to re-create mechanisms that safeguard peasant agriculture impacted by mining megaprojects in Latin America, that is, whether and how such Latin American peasant women present an alternative to global food systems and thereby search for their own autonomy. The analysis is driven by a case study in Brazil seen through two feminist lenses, with the aim of critically addressing the contradictory official statements regarding an ongoing feminisation of food production and hunger. One is the decolonial feminism articulated by Latin