Urban agriculture in Santarém, Pará, Brazil: diversity and circulation of cultivated plants in urban homegardens

WinklerPrins, Antoinette M. G. A.; Oliveira, Perpetuo Socorro de Souza

doi:10.1590/s1981-81222010000300002

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“…This result is more worrying when we consider that these changes are occurring also in areas of Amazon region, where the forest remains useful and traditional use of native species are, in part, preserved (Major, Clement, & DiTommaso, 2005;WinklerPrins & de Oliveira, 2010). Changes in eating habits have been observed throughout time and in various societies.…”

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Native foods from Brazilian biodiversity as a source of bioactive compounds

Oliveira

Yamada

Fagg

et al. 2012

Food Research International

130

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The interest in South American native plant species has been growing in recent years due to their health benefits. Brazil is one of the world's mega-diverse locations with over 40,000 different plant species representing 20% of the world's flora. The country was visited in the 19th century by European travelers and naturalists, who described the use of native plant species as food. In this study, data on 67 species was recovered from historical documents and bibliographies. Several of the recorded species show potential as functional food in laboratory studies. Other species are unknown or not yet submitted to any study, in order to verify their health benefits.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Native foods from Brazilian biodiversity as a source of bioactive compounds

Oliveira

Yamada

Fagg

et al. 2012

Food Research International

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“…Multi‐sited households, i.e. households maintaining houses and economic activities in both rural and urban areas, are often to be found in riverine areas (Padoch et al, ; WinklerPrins and Oliveira, ), including indigenous (Moreira, ; Eloy and Lasmar, ) and quilombola communities (Nasuti et al, ), but also around agricultural frontier settlements (Granchamp Florentino, ; Eloy and Emperaire, ; Guedes et al, ). The reorganisation of residence is strongly associated with multi‐sited production and commercialisation systems, where families simultaneously manage fields, home gardens, fallows and other areas (e.g.…”

Section: Multi‐sited Households Institutional Arrangements and Resoumentioning

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New Perspectives on Mobility, Urbanisation and Resource Management in Riverine Amazônia

Eloy

Brondízio

Pateo

2014

Bull Latin American Res

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International audienceIn recent years, the Amazon has experienced simultaneous processes of urbanisation and creation of protected areas. Debates over the changing role of traditional peoples in the management of such areas have largely taken place in the absence of reliable information on these popula-tions' connections to urban areas. We review the literature on Amazônia to explore how rural–urban mobility redefines patterns of resource use. The focus is primarily on riverine areas of the Brazilian Amazon. Connection to urban areas does not necessarily imply deep changes in production techniques, but induces new norms, rules and values around access to and management of resources. Rural–urban mobility challenges the capacity of local groups to maintain collective resource management, but on the other hand involves the reassertion of traditional territories and identities through social and economic networks. Mobility and migration have long been integral to the livelihood patterns and political strategies of rural and indigenous populations in Latin America (Adams et al., 2009; Alexiades, 2009). Recently, however, the magnitude of social dispersion and changes in settlement patterns associated with rapid urbanisation have renewed research interest in the implications of these processes for resource use and management in general (Wright and Muller-Landau, 2006), and within the Amazon basin in particular (McSweeney and Jokisch, 2007; Padoch et al., 2008). Urbanisation in Amazônia has been better studied on agricultural frontiers (Browder and Godfrey, 1997; Barbieri et al., 2009) than along the floodplains and the Amazon's main tributaries. However, these areas are increasingly important for resource conservation in the region (Parry et al., 2010a). Indeed, a

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“…Considering that Chapecó is the major and largest city in the west region of Santa Catarina state (IBGE 2010), which is composed of rural properties and small cities, probably the urban gardens represent a link between urban and rural settings so that products, germoplasm and household members move commonly between them, as was observed by WinklerPrins (2002) in Santarém (Pará State, Brazil). Another hypothesis is the high rate of change or donations of germoplasm among kin, neighbors, and communities, which is a common practice reported by several ethnobotany studies such as those of WinklerPrins (2006), Pasa et al (2008), WinklerPrins & Oliveira (2010), Milani et al (2011), andBrito &Senna-Valle (2011). Pasa et al (2008) emphasized the importance of neighborly relations for the exchange of experiences and information.…”

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Urban ethnobotany: a case study in neighborhoods of different ages in Chapecó, Santa Catarina State

2017

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Th e study of urban home gardens is still a current gap in knowledge in Brazilian ethnobotany researches, especially in the south of Brazil. Th is study was carried out to survey the species composition of plants in urban residential home gardens of two neighborhoods in the municipality of Chapecó (state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil): an older neighborhood created prior to the 1950s, and a younger neighborhood created in the decade 1970-1980. It was hypothesized that the home gardens in the older neighborhood would be larger and have greater species richness than those in the younger neighborhood. Data from 10 home gardens in each neighborhood were collected through semi-structured interviews. Th e plants cited by interviewees were classifi ed as used for alimentary, medicinal and/ or ornamental purposes. A total of 372 plant species (256 in the older neighborhood and 248 in the younger one) were recorded. Th e two neighborhoods diff ered in the size of their home gardens, but had similar species richness. Th e high species richness of plants cultivated for alimentary, medicinal and ornamental purposes in both Chapecó neighborhoods indicates that these spaces are an important resource for food, subsistence and well-being.

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Urban agriculture in Santarém, Pará, Brazil: diversity and circulation of cultivated plants in urban homegardens

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

Native foods from Brazilian biodiversity as a source of bioactive compounds

Native foods from Brazilian biodiversity as a source of bioactive compounds

New Perspectives on Mobility, Urbanisation and Resource Management in Riverine Amazônia

Urban ethnobotany: a case study in neighborhoods of different ages in Chapecó, Santa Catarina State

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