TY - JOUR

T1 - Funciones agroecológicas de los nichos de agrobiodiversidad en la ruralidad de Bogotá, Colombia

AU - Ortiz-Przychodzka, Stefan

AU - Quiroga Manrique, Catalina

AU - Monroy-Hernández, Julieth

AU - Pérez, Darío

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The authors.

PY - 2023/1/1

Y1 - 2023/1/1

N2 - The rapid expansion of industrial agriculture in rural Bogotá has led to a reduction in the diversity of plants cultivated by peasant families. This generates transformations in livelihoods and biocultural relations, affecting local environmental knowledge and practices for the use and management of agrobiodiversity. Although several studies have documented the presence of agrobiodiversity niches, such as orchards and peasant gardens that persist amid homogenized landscapes, there is a need to expand the identification and analysis of the multiple cultural and agroecological functions that characterize them. This study aims to identify local environmental knowledge linked to orchards and gardens in terms of their functions and contributions to the conservation and recovery of agrobiodiversity. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews were conducted with six key local informants and twenty-five peasant households, including ethnographic observations and ethnobotanical walks. Based on the information obtained, the agrobiodiversity niches were characterized in terms of their functionality according to the daily experiences of their caretakers. Eight agroecological functions, 249 common names associated with the same number of plant species, and knowledge about uses and management were identified. Finally, the possible articulations of the niches with the surrounding landscapes and water spaces were analyzed to understand their potential contribution to territorial transformations and to the connectivity of the rural ecological structure of Bogota.

AB - The rapid expansion of industrial agriculture in rural Bogotá has led to a reduction in the diversity of plants cultivated by peasant families. This generates transformations in livelihoods and biocultural relations, affecting local environmental knowledge and practices for the use and management of agrobiodiversity. Although several studies have documented the presence of agrobiodiversity niches, such as orchards and peasant gardens that persist amid homogenized landscapes, there is a need to expand the identification and analysis of the multiple cultural and agroecological functions that characterize them. This study aims to identify local environmental knowledge linked to orchards and gardens in terms of their functions and contributions to the conservation and recovery of agrobiodiversity. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews were conducted with six key local informants and twenty-five peasant households, including ethnographic observations and ethnobotanical walks. Based on the information obtained, the agrobiodiversity niches were characterized in terms of their functionality according to the daily experiences of their caretakers. Eight agroecological functions, 249 common names associated with the same number of plant species, and knowledge about uses and management were identified. Finally, the possible articulations of the niches with the surrounding landscapes and water spaces were analyzed to understand their potential contribution to territorial transformations and to the connectivity of the rural ecological structure of Bogota.

KW - Sustainability Science

KW - Territorial Sustainability

KW - water spaces

KW - lansdcapes

KW - biocultural diversity

KW - water spaces

KW - agroecological functions

KW - landscapes

KW - cultural practices

KW - territorial sustainability

KW - Kultur und Raum

KW - Biocultural diversity

KW - cultural practices

KW - agroecological functions

KW - Ecosystems Research

KW - biocultural diversity

KW - water spaces

KW - agroecological functions

KW - landscapes

KW - cultural practices

KW - territorial sustainability

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U2 - 10.17141/iconos.75.2023.5534

DO - 10.17141/iconos.75.2023.5534

M3 - Zeitschriftenaufsätze

VL - 27

SP - 201

EP - 224

JO - ÍCONOS Revista de Ciencias Sociales

JF - ÍCONOS Revista de Ciencias Sociales

SN - 1390-1249

IS - 75

ER -