Manejo de agrobiodiversidad en geoformas de restingas de várzea peruana, Iquitos/Perú

Abstract

The study has as purpose to evaluate and analyze the management of the agrobiodiversity in sandbank geoforms from the adaptability of the practiced agrobiodiversity and its function in the economic strategies of the riverine producing families. The relative stability of geoforms of sandbanks in function to the erosion and flood and its great natural agro-biologic potential, explains its occupation and intensification of Amazon’s soil usage larger before its discovery and colonization by the Europeans (Spanish and Portuguese). The adaptability of the riverine agrodiversity, as strategy to produce, manage and preserve the diversity of agricultural, agroflorestal and other resources of the Amazon agrobiodiversity, in different units of production or agroecosystems (vegetable, garden, small holding, woods) of familiar ownership, has contributed to reach the alimentary self-sufficiency during the year and mainly to face or to reduce risk caused by high flood and by the market (instability of prices). The field work was carried out in the Peruvian Amazonian cultivated plains, specifically in the Muyuy Sector in the outheast of Iquitos city.