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| Pauli, Natasha; School of Earth and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia; natasha.pauli@uwa.edu.au; Abbott, Lynette K; School of Earth and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia; lynette.abbott@uwa.edu.au. |
| General knowledge of the small, invisible, or hidden organisms that make soil one of the most biodiverse habitats on Earth is thought to be scarce, despite their importance in food systems and agricultural production. We provide the first worldwide review of high-quality research that reports on farmers’ knowledge of soil organisms in agriculture. The depth of farmers’ knowledge varied; some farming communities held detailed local taxonomies and observations of soil biota, or used soil biological activity as indicators of soil fertility, while others were largely unaware of soil fauna. Elicitation of soil biota knowledge was often incidental to the main research goal in many of the reviewed studies. Farmers are rarely deliberately or... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Ethnoecology; Ethnopedology; Farmer knowledge; Local knowledge; Soil biota. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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| Cabral,Raiana Lira; Alves,Ângelo Giuseppe Chaves; Ribeiro Filho,Mateus Rosas; Souza Júnior,Valdomiro Severino de; Ribeiro,Mateus Rosas; Santos,Carolina Gonzaga Rodrigues. |
| Ethnopedological studies have mainly focused on agricultural land uses and associated practices. Nevertheless, peasant and indigenous populations use soil and land resources for a number of additional purposes, including pottery. In the present study, we describe and analyze folk knowledge related to the use of soils in non-industrial pottery making by peasant potters, in the municipality of Altinho, Pernambuco State, semiarid region at Brazil. Ethnoscientific techniques were used to record local knowledge, with an emphasis on describing the soil materials recognized by the potters, the properties they used to identify those soil materials, and the criteria employed by them to differentiate and relate such materials. The potters recognized three categories... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Local knowledge; Ethnopedology; Alfisols; Sodium-affected soils; Non-agricultural soil uses. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832015000100303 |
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| Matuk,Fernanda Ayaviri; Schaefer,Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves Reynaud; Simas,Felipe Nogueira Bello; Pereira,Thiago Torres Costa; Gjorup,Davi Feital; Coelho,France Maria Gontijo. |
| ABSTRACT Quilombolas are Afro-brazilian rural peasants who descended from escaped slaves who tried to carve out territories of autonomy (called Quilombos) by collective organization and resistance. Despite many anthropological and ethnopedological studies, little research has been carried out to identify the agricultural practices and the knowledge of people who live in the Quilombos (Quilombolas). Peasant communities who live from land resources have wide empirical knowledge related to local soils and landscapes. In this respect, ethnopedology focuses on their relationship with local practices, needs, and values. We carried out an ethnopedological evaluation of the soils, landscape and land suitability of the Malhada Grande Quilombola Territory, aiming to... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Ethnopedology; Quilombo; Maroons; Participatory methods; Local knowledge. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832017000100601 |
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| Alves,Ângelo Giuseppe Chaves; Silva,Ivandro de França da; Queiroz,Sandra Barreto de; Ribeiro,Mateus Rosas. |
| Decisions and practical attitudes of land use and management adopted by rural populations are, to a great extent, based on local soil knowledge. This study was performed to describe and analyze chemical, physical and morphological characteristics of sodium-affected Alfisols employed in traditional pottery; and to compare, through statistical analysis, pedogenetical horizons and soil layers, as recognized in soil profiles by professional researchers and potter-farmers, respectively. Fieldwork was performed in Chã da Pia, a rural village in the municipality of Areia, in the Agreste region of the State of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil. Ethnoscientific techniques were used to describe and analyze soil knowledge of potter-farmers who played the role of informants.... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/report |
Palavras-chave: Ethnopedology; Discriminant-canonical analysis; Pottery; Local knowledge. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162007000500007 |
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