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Assessment of biodiversity goods for the sustainable development of the chagra in an indigenous community of the Colombian Amazon: local values of crops

The chagra is the agroforestry system adapted to the characteristics of the Amazon region. Recently, there has been a reported loss of biodiversity and traditional knowledge associated with the chagras. This paper characterizes the cultivators, exploring knowledge and expressed value perception in the context of the Amazonian chagra of an indigenous community; also, this prioritizes species, under the optics of commercial opportunity.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectTraditional Knowledge
PublisherJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Publication year2021
RegionsLatin America and the Caribbean
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typePublications
Resource linkhttps://ethnobiomed.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s13002-021-00453-0.pdf
KeywordsTraditional Knowledge; Agricultural biodiversity; Value chain; Recognition of the role of farmers
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