Agrobiodiversity Pedagogical Bank
Keywords:
Agricultural Family School, Landraces, Conservation, AgroecologyAbstract
Community seed banks are important because they have the functionality of a privileged learning
space, development of management capacity, articulation of families for agroecological
innovation processes and knowledge exchanges, strengthening cooperation and solidarity relations,
recovery of seeds and lost knowledge. This work aims to present the Agrobiodiversity
Pedagogical Bank of the Sobradinho Family Agricultural School in Bahia (BPA-EFAS) with the
participatory registration of the information of the conserved materials. Currently, BPA-EFAS
conserves 65 landraces semiarid varieties, of which the students of the school brought 38 from
their communities during an activity in the community time. The species that have the most
conserved landraces are the beans, pumpkin and watermelon. Twenty-six guardians were
identified in the 15 communities where the collections held.