This study analyses the mobilization experience of two groups of women which practice mangaba extractivism and call themselves pickers. They inhabit restinga areas (sandbanks) and tabuleiros (tablelands) in the Brazilian northeast and fields of the north, where they practice various activities (fishing, handicraft, tourism wage-earning, etc.), which are essential to their family's reproduction. This project's goal is to analyze the mobilization experience of women mangaba fruit pickers in the context of valorization of their role as "traditional population", but threatened to lose their access to natural resources extraction which give them their denomination in the states of Sergipe and Pará. The hypothesis used as guideline was: access restriction to natural resources affect fruit-picking women directly, but also stimulate their mobilization and has been contributing to the construction of new individual and collective perceptions of their situation, simultaneously, as women and fruit-pickers in a given context of dispute of resources which have economic and symbolic value in their reproduction strategies. The research will be run in the counties of Indiaroba/SE (Pontal Village) and Maracanã (Campo da Mangaba), selected for having spaces in which social processes have been marked by conflict surrounding natural resources (mangaba trees). This project aims to disclose analyses and statistical date regarding women fruit-pickers demands on orientation by public institutions regarding their practices, in addition to a detailed description of the first mobilization experience of women mangaba fruit-pickers in Brazil.

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