Conhecimento e uso de biodiversidade em sistemas de produção em base ecológica no Norte Central e Noroeste do Paraná

Abstract

The use of plants in different human activities presents a wide range of possibilities in every place where human populations settled. In Brazil, a country of great cultural and ethnic diversity, the use of plants becomes very complex and diverse. The objectives of this study were to identify the use and knowledge of farmers and farmers of plant resources for the agroecological management of insects and their perception about pests and their relationships with environmental degradation. There were conducted 30 interviews and participant observation with the farming families of the North Central and Northwest Paraná, which are organized into local associations close to the city of Maringa. Upon completion of the work was carried out a primer of the use of agricultural biodiversity and agroecological management strategies in insects with recipes and strategies of the farmers themselves. These have a vast knowledge on strategies and possibilities of use of agricultural biodiversity in population management of insects. Plants are known and used in all surveyed categories: consortium, ground cover, wind break, traps and plant extracts, vegetable oils and powders. As with other strategies that do not include the use of plant resources. Ethnobotanical research in agroecology are important to enhance the popular peasant knowledge and raise research lines for the development of new products less aggressive to the environment and rural communities and encourage biodiversity in the countryside.