Ethno-zootechny and its relationship with traditional knowledge in family farming / A etnozootecnia e sua relação com os saberes tradicionais do agricultor familiar

• Autor(a) principal: Rezende, Nathaly Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Amaral, Regiane Rosa, Siquiera, Jeanne Broch, de Moura, Adolpho Marlon Antoniol, Mota, Diego Azevedo, Pereira, Anderson Alvarenga, Redin, Ezequiel, Melo, Thiago Vasconcelos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Veras
• DOI: 10.34117/bjdv.v7i5.29303
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.brazilianjournals.com.br/ojs/index.php/BRJD/article/view/29303
• topic: animal science; animal welfare; ethnoscience; generational inheritance.

Ethno-zootechny is a contemporary science, an analytical instrument for rescuing knowledge and its relationship with society's culture. The work aimed to analyze the perception and understanding of rural family's livestock about the ethno-zootechny concepts in the social, economic, and environmental scope in the Northwest of Minas Gerais. To this end, research was conducted using a semi-structured script involving 50 farmers, representatives of rural producers' families during 2019. Subsequently, the data obtained were analyzed in the light of a statistical and descriptive approach to the results. A cluster analysis was performed by the hierarchical method using the Ward model. The results indicate that the interviewees feel devalued by society as producers, on the other hand, maintain that the current condition of cattle ranchers is related to the intangible elements: inheritance of property, way of life, tradition, and preservation of rural values. The research pointed out that the form of knowledge acquisition encompasses a traditional process of transmitting knowledge across generations. The survey demonstrates a low level of technical assistance in the interviewed properties. It is concluded that the main form of knowledge transmission is generational. There is a confrontation between the old and the modern because of inherited and acquired rationalities and resistance with the new production technologies in family production units in the Northwest of Minas Gerais.