“Nos nu tem k serta, ti serta”: políticas públicas e suas relações com gênero em Cabo Verde na era das barragens

Abstract

This work verifies how gender is related to the statements of public policies of rural development, through the implementation of dams, in Cabo Verde. It considers that issues involving gender relations, as well as those related to the modernization of agriculture, have driven the creation of public policies and a variety of programs and activities that are being included within these two headings. For an analysis of these policies, this dissertation is supported by a case study - Figueira Gorda Dam, in the Municipality of Santa Cruz, on the Island of Santiago, from January to April 2017, from an ethnográgico approach. Firstly, the plans / programs related to the agricultural sector and gender equality, followed by an ethnography, were systematized and analyzed to understand the dynamics of the enterprise, the interviews, the field diary and the technical information conversations used women, farmers and public entities.And from these outlined approaches, by characterizing the public policies focused on rural development, it was possible to show that since the formulation, they present Cabo Verde as a country of "few resources" and with a strong dependence of "international aid and financing", with programs / plans that are born from an international agenda, in the name of sustainable development, focusing on the environmental and economic sector. And in the case of the Figueira Gorda Dam, the experience of this model, evidence a (re) configuration of the social space, that reinforced the gender inequalities and the non participation of women in "modern" agriculture, thus conserving the modern / colonial.