Cultura e a agrobiodiversidade: um estudo de caso em território quilombola nos municípios de Tavares e Mostardas no RS

Abstract

The quilombola issue has been debated for a long time, with numerous studies on black territory and its form of resistance, but little on the culture of maintaining its creole seeds and their meanings, its strategies developed to maintain its autonomy, not only economic , but also for decision-making, for the worldviews that their seeds transmit to their farmers. The term creole seed guardian represents a questioning aspect of the dominant model, valuing and re-signifying the value of creole seed. The methodology used for the development of the investigation was for an ethnographic inspiration, adopting as tools open interviews with support of question script, participant observation and visual record. The present study deals with quilombola creole seeds guardian families belonging to the Olhos D’Água and Capororoca communities in the municipality of Tavares, and the Teixeiras and Casca communities in the municipality of Mostardas. In this sense, quilombola guardian families, endowed with a rich cultural diversity, manipulate in different ways a considerable number of Creole seeds, which has enabled the maintenance of different species and varieties where knowledge is represented in the ways of using, maintaining and valuing these seeds.