Recognition of farmers´ knowledge through a participatory community mapping. Paipa-Colombia
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Abstract
This document develops a participatory mapping social exercise as a strategy to recognize the local farmers’ knowledge at the Caños Village, in Paipa-Colombia. Agricultural activities and practices were identified to comparatively expose farmers’ experiences with the traditional knowledge they have. At methodological level, community participation workshops, participant observation, and semi-structured interviews were used to assess the degree of transformation of the farmers’ labor. The main results showed that there was a change in the local knowledge of farmers surrounding agricultural production. This affects the frequency of famers rural work through newly acquired rural knowledge, habits, and practices. This causes a loss in the neighborhood networks as well as the revaluation of the farmer’s rural work. Finally, it is recognized that there is a transformation in the conception of the farmer regarding their relationship with nature and their practices of territorial production.