Like Unicafes Nacional, Unicafes Bahia also represents a “new cooperativism”, where the cooperatives are formed by family farmers and for the family farmers. The model of development elaborated by Unicafes aims for social management (local and democratic) with participation of youth and women in a pro-active way. However, the historical and social context limits the implementation of this model of development. Women have an important role in the family agriculture and in the rural economy in general. Even thought the majority of women execute many functions at farm level, femine participation in the farmers organizations are limited, approximately 10% of the members. This project has the objective to organize women family farmers, developing the economic and solidary initiatives formed by women exclusively and also the mixed initiatives, enabling moments of reflection about the social relations of gender and making new partnerships with governmental and civil society organizations. In this way, Unicafes aims supports the empowerment of women as a protagonist in the family, in the cooperatives and in the society in general.