El rol de la mujer rural en la agricultura y los recursosnaturales en la provincia de El Oro

Abstract

Abstract: Women are important producers of food, generators of household income and keepers of knowledge, but their efforts are often hampered by lack of access to productive resources, technologies, services and markets. The theme of the present investigation had as general objective to analyze the role of rural women in agriculture and natural resources in the province of El Oro, for which a bibliographical -field investigation was used, for which the analytical and synthetic methods, we worked with a sample of 160 surveyedfrom the province of El Oro, who responded to an online survey, the results of which allowed us to conclude that the role of agricultural women in entrepreneurship and innovation in the province of El Oro is important, they have shown that they play an important role in agricultural and livestock work. They are farmers and agricultural workers, caretakers of biodiversity, livestock breeders; he strives to produce for his family's consumption and to sell in order to generate economic income.