Peri-urban family gardens as spaces that favor resistance and the conservation of biodiversity

Abstract

Urban expansion and population growth influence agriculture and family gardens, production areas are reduced. The family garden in San Felipe Ecatepec, Chiapas, México is a system, with subsystes, functions, composition and management. Through participant observation, surveys, collection, herbalization and identification of planst species, their diversity, uses and richness were known. A high number of species was found, richness from high to moderate, the surface oscillating between 600 m2 and 2500 m2. Growing next to the house allows you to have healthy and fresh food, create a useful, productive space and conserve agrobiodiversity. It is an agroecosystem that interacts with other gardens, integratem that interacts with other gardens, interates local knowledge, offers a spasce for family coexistence.

They can be considered spaces of resistance based on traditional knowledge, they contribute to food on traditional knowledge, they contribute to food

sovereignty, control of their resources, and individual and collective food sovereignty.