THE ETNOAGRONOMY IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS FOR PEASANTS COMMUNITIES

Abstract

It is part of the need to continue the legacy of Efraim Hernandez Xolocotzi on traditional agricultural technology, as a paradigm for research, teaching and extension in the field of our country, for this the Etnoagronomia is proposed as one of the ethnosciences to develop and league necessarily technological, economic, social and cultural matter of peasants with development proposals. In our experience of several research with this approach, we found the persitencia and dominance of traditional agricultural technology in rural production in Mexico, with persistence of traditional knowledge related to the knowledge of natural resources, genetic diversity of cultivated and exploited wild species management technology, existence of traditional tools, presence of propitiatory rituals, agricultural calendars, forms of transmission of knowledge. As for rural development initiatives with the participation of rural communities we have found that the recognition of knowledge and its use for development proposals in participatory processes resulting in projects ethnodeveloment, local development, sustainable development, agricultural development, inter alia, the interests of the actors.

Keywords

• ethno
• ethnodeveloment
• traditional agricultural technology
• community development