homegarden

— Based on the ideas and concerns discussed above, we want to propose a more multi-leveled approach to understanding how some of the caboclo women farmers on Ituqui Island, in Lower Amazon, Brazil, relate to their physical environment, especially their homegardens, and the implications for their lives as well as for their families and immediate community. For this, we will introduce aspects of the social, economic and environmental interactions of Ituqui women and their activities in homegardens.