Ethnoknowledge of food plants cultivated in the community Canto Alegre, Coivaras (PI), Brazil

Abstract

The present work had as objective, to know as main species associated to the diet of the families,
and a dynamics of management and cultivation of foods plants in the traditional agroecossystems
of the community Canto Alegre, municipality of Coivaras in the state of Piauí.
Sampling was not probabilistic using a snowball technique, in which 23 key informants were
selected for the application of the semi-structured forms. The main traditional agroecosystems
related to the cultivation and management of food plants were: roças and home gardens. As
major species grown in the community for subsistence family farming. The community interviewees
Joyful singing about what food plants make up the local agri-food systems.