Native seed banks of the Wixárika people for promoting peasant food sovereignty.
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https://doi.org/10.22231/asyd.v22i3.1636Keywords:
Food, indigenous peoples, interculturality, traditional agricultureAbstract
Native seed banks have become a strategy for communities and peoples to promote food sovereignty in their territories. This has been socially constructed by farmers as a requirement, which guides the policies, programs, and intervention strategies of social organizations. This research aims to analyze the importance of the native seed banks of the Wixárika people, as a model for advancing an integral food production system that contributes to improving the food sovereignty of peasant communities in the Valles de Jalisco region, Mexico. This represents a qualitative case study that analyzes knowledge and experiences, in the implementation of native seed banks in different cultural contexts and the role that rituals play in the preservation of native germplasm. Results from this study analyze the native seed banks of the Wixárika people in the Sierra Madre Occidental, who conserve their native seeds through the Coamil Production System; likewise, members from this ethnic group collaborate in the implementation of seed banks among rural mestizo peasant populations, who take part in an educational program to determine the ethnic group’s system and adapt it to their context. In conclusion, it is evident that a fundamental strategy for conserving native corn (maize) lies in the seed banks associated with and endorsed by rituals; mythically linking corn to Mother Earth.
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