Memories and knowledge in Amazon agroforestry home gardens

Abstract

As European colonizers advanced in the Amazonian lands, traditional populations were forced
to abandon many of their immemorial habits, customs and knowledge to assimilate the culture
of whites, incorporating the system of agricultural production geometrically systematized, capable
of producing surplus production vegetable and animal. The research method is bibliographical,
aiming at a brief historical reconstruction on the traditional Amazonian agriculture.
The results indicate that the construction of homegarden and shift cultivation depend on the
traditional ecological knowledge transmitted from generation to generation through the biocultural
memory of these populations and agroecosystems are based on the principles of agrobiodiversity.
It is concluded that the construction of homegardens, based on agrobiodiversity, are
in livid memories of the bioculturalism of the traditional farmers of the Amazon.