Na cheia e na seca: produção de alimentos no agroecossistema em Manacapuru - Amazonas

Abstract

The Amazon region is comprised of a variety of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, being inhabited by human societies. In this variety of environments are aquatic ecosystems such as rivers, lakes and streams. They can also be found terrestrial ecosystems such as upland forests, occupying no wetlands and transition environment forest between the lacustrine fluvial plains and land, making flood lands, as in the environment of the Great Lake system in the Municipality Manacapuru - Amazonas, inhabited by farmers. To understand the survival of these inhabitants the study aimed to analyze the agro-ecosystem landscapes food production from farm families. It was adopted in the survey the theoretical approach of the dialectic of systemic complexity, and to survey the empirical data, we used the case study combining various techniques: field diary, interviews, photographs and mental map. The place described by family farmers demonstrates the knowledge which they had acquired in their courses in aquatic and terrestrial environments. With the appropriation of common environmental goods they reproduce the food-producing landscapes, featuring the agro-ecosystem. In different agroecosystems units is the production of various foods, used by farming families. The operation of the production units is proposed by the farmers themselves, as they are autonomous and have the power of decision, so they decide how all activities should be performed, establishing what should be produced and how it should be produced. From these factors it can be concluded that the production of food is diverse and caters to feed demand from families, being the result of farmer knowledge to appropriate the various existing environmental goods in the environmental system, as well as in adapting to the conditions set in periods of flood and drought water.