Fruitful exchanges: social networks and food resources amidst change.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Amazon region of Brazil is known both for its significant biological and cultural diversity. It is also a region, like many parts of the country, marked by food insecurity, even amongst its rural agricultural populations. In a novel approach, this paper addresses the networks of exchanges of local food and their relationship to the agrobiodiversity of traditional riverine peoples' (ribeirinho) households in the Central Amazon. Methodologically, it involves mapping the social networks and affinities between households, inventories of known species, and, finally, statistical tests of the relationships between network and subsequent agrobiodiversity.

Results

The diversity per area of each land type where food cultivation or management takes place shows how

SUBMITTER: Schramski S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8853342 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature