CVT Fundos de Pasto Experience with the Sertanejas Communities in Bahia: reintroduction and maintenance of breeds and creole seeds in caatingas

Abstract

The CVT Fundo de Pasto is a joint initiative of IF Baiano, of the Escola Família Agrícola do Sertão (EFASE), located in Monte Santo - BA, CVT headquarters and sponsored by CNPq, process 402695 / 2017-8. The Fundo de Pasto are traditional communities in the Caatinga of Bahia that have a territory that cattle and, especially, goats and sheep and in a smaller number of pigs are raised free foraging native vegetation. It is a way of life that spans centuries, with peasants living with the caatinga and who were able to forge a very particular agriculture with breeds and creole seeds. However, with the advance of capitalist agriculture much of this agrobiodiversity and agrobioculturality has been lost. In the face of climate change, CVT Fundo de Pasto has reintroduced Creole breeds: beef cattle; moxoto goat; buritizinho pig; balloon chicken for training classes for students, professionals and experimentation farmers, as well as backyards with native xerophils, stimulating community seed houses. The actions have generated the reappearance of Creole varieties and traditional forms of agricultural management in communities.