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Coffee is a commercial crop appropriated by the Indigenous communities of the Altos of Chiapas. In particular, In the mid-twentieth century, the inhabitants of Sibanicjá Pocolum, from the community of Tenejapa, began to temporarily migrate to the coffee farms of Soconusco, in southern Chiapas. Them, through their work, they acquired knowledge about the management of coffee cultivation, its techniques, and its instruments. The objective of this study is to understand how the knowledge and cultural practices of Mayan origin guided the process of cultural appropriation of the crop. 25 in-depth interviews were applied to various social actors such as the council of tsumbajeletik elders (sowers of life), two presidents of the organizations Kulaktik and Batsi Winiki, the traditional choir group, the director of the SADER of the Altos region, the parish priest from Tenejapa and coffee producers. The results obtained identify that local knowledge and practices in coffee cultivation have their origin in the ancient practices of milpa cultivation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Agriculture in Mexico City has been important since pre-Hispanic times, developed under different traditional agricultural systems. Although the most important domesticated species are well recognized, the composition and richness of weeds has not been described in detail. The objectives of the present study were: 1) To record the knowledge and use of the weeds that grow in the fields of the city hall of Cuajimalpa, Mexico City, 2) To compare the composition, richness and diversity of the weeds that grow in plots of Cuajimalpa subject to different agricultural practices (Traditional vs Technified) and 3) To compare the richness and composition of the seed bank in these plots. This study was developed in the localities of San Lorenzo Acopilco, San Mateo Tlaltenango and San Pablo Chimalpa. Seventeen interviews were applied and four samplings were carried out in plots with different agricultural practices. The richness, abundance and composition of the weeds were recorded in samplings, complementary collections and seed bank. The diversity and the floristic similarity between plots were estimated. The migratory status of the species was investigated. Interviews indicated that traditional agriculture and knowledge of weeds prevail, but technified practices were incorporated 30 years ago. Samples showed that the richness species, plant composition, abundance and availability of useful weeds changed and were more similar between both technified plots, evidencing the use of the herbicide. Conversely, it was more dissimilar among those with traditional practices, suggesting that these represent reservoirs of agrobiodiversity, mainly native species (more than 50% of the total richness), which could reflect that under traditional management, native weeds present strategies for evade new agricultural practices, particularly herbicide and fertilizer use, but also resist substitution by exotic weeds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and aims: In the NW of Argentina, Iruya (Salta, Arg.), there are systems of subsistence with cattle extensive management of grazing by family units. They have peasant characteristics, traditional management guidelines, community agreements and a strategy of transhumance in the use of different environmental units. M&M: Ethnobiological methodology was used to record the manifestations of the biocultural system, the analysis is qualitative with quantitative contributions in the interpretation of the data. Results: Eighty-one ethnospecies were identified between wild and cultivated, two vernacular classification systems (one for cattle management and others for forage resource management). A scheme of the availability of fodder in the annual cycle was constructed, based on the supplementation strategies. A livestock management system was observed with two levels of management, one private by the families and the other by the community organization. Conclusions: The livestock for his society is a practice of subsistence, from the management of environmental units and their resources; their knowledge of the natural environment influences the interaction between vegetables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Chile, the native populations are involved in a process of cultural revitalization and territorial claim that is rooted in the discovery of their heritage. This case of study is located in the south of Chile, on the western slope of the Andean foothills. Its orientation determines the existence of a rainforest of great biological and aesthetic diversity that leads to a complex landscape where natural and cultural aspects merge. The methodology identifies the tourist resource through a landscape study and a collective mapping of its heritage vectors, elaborated in collaboration with the communities through workshops and meetings. As a result, landscape and heritage vector maps are generated, which reflect the relationship of coexistence that mapuche communities develop with the environment and, at the same time, constitute elements on which they establish their community-based tourism activities such as traditional vegetable gardens, craft trade or guided routes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An updated contribution about the ecological knowledge of "criollos" of San Marcos Sierras about practices that originated and maintain the different landscape units is made. From semistructured interviews with key informants and participatory walks, the names of the managed units, the species, uses, and associated practices were documented. The "criollos" recognize and name 2 units of landscapes: "cerco" and "monte". A total of 57 ethnospecies were recorded, 33 for the "cerco" and 55 for the "monte". Both units share 54% of the species that receive different uses and management according to the unit where they are located. Medicinal, food, firewood and fodder are the main uses. All practices and uses were taught by the family group and belong to the traditional heritage of the farmers. Increased ethno-ecological and ecological analyzes are necessary to understand the changes in the floristic composition of the forest and / or the abundance of some woody species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A historical and interdisciplinary approach provides specific information on traditional practices such as health care and illness, a historical fact that currently prevails contributing to nursing discipline, which belongs to its object of study. Interpreting the cosmovision as an articulated set of ideological systems for the knowledge and understanding of traditional care, under the historical method and hermeneutical methodology, interpretative paradigm based on the collection of historical, philological, philosophical, ethnographic data, among others, ratifies the interpretation And understanding of the underlying knowledge of the cosmovision of traditional practices such as health care and disease in pre-Hispanic and present indigenous societies. The concept posed by Wilhelm Dhilthey and contextualized for Mesoamerican studies by Johanna Broda and López Austin, is thought to be important for identifying, knowing and understanding traditional practices. The concept of cosmovision for the nursing discipline is useful if it is studied as a core of products that identify an articulated set of ideological systems such as traditional practices, their ideological field, origin, characteristics, social dynamics, conception of man, Disease and of course, its care in its humanist dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper outlines the findings from research named "Traditional and spiritual care practices in a Nahua, indigenous community" (García, 2015; García Piña, Cardoso Gómez, Serrano Sánchez & Ostiguín Meléndez, 2015), in which spirituality elements were identified as coping strategies for the health-disease-death processes. Those results were complemented with a documental review. Objective: to claim on the caring strategies, on a specific social, cultural and historical context, that promotes the improvement of the nursing practice in the Mexican context. Method: theoretical-inductive documentary analysis. Results: communities are built from common goals and objectives, which arise as health-disease-death processes in its own particular perspective. Conclusion: nursing has as one of its main functions, to rescue people's individual and collective response, for coping with every life situation; allowing that care itself, becomes a mutual feedback exercise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper emerges as a result of the research "Design of public policies for the Associativity o milk producers in Colombia". The creation process of milk producers associations in Cundinamarca is shown, with the goal of offering a framework for public policy that makes it possible to support and recognize rural communities immersed in globalization processes, involved in free commerce treaties with the United States and the European Union. The methodology defined for the project had a qualitative framework, expressed through an interpretative discursive typology. Thorough interviews were made with a focus on categorization that, for the project, linked the narrations and perceptions of the collective identity components, traditional practices and collective political action. On the other hand, the methodological experience made it possible to link complementary strategies such as social cartography, documentary collection and ethnographic diaries, with which it was possible not only to collect information related to the categories of the study in an important proportion, but also to enrich the analysis itself, with the diversity and plurality that suggests an investigation of this nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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