Urban agriculture in Santarém, Pará, Brazil: diversity and circulation of cultivated plants in urban homegardens

摘要: Urban agriculture, including urban homegardens, is vital for survival of many people in various cities around the world, those Amazon region Brazil. These spaces, through daily praxis, become important incidental agrodiversity conservation as food plants are cultivated and their plant material circulated. Utilizing data from a year-long intensive qualitative study 25 rural-urban migrant households, this article considers diversity homegardens Amazonian city Santarem, Para, The purpose was to understand social systems that maintain homegardens. Our objectives twofold: a) demonstrate persists setting which located 'at market'; b) document ways flows help agrodiversity.