Conocimiento ancestral sobre los sistemas de producción agropecuaria en ecosistema de páramo como herramienta clave para su manejo

Abstract

Abstract: The purpose of this project is to obtain ancestral information related to productive activities in the agricultural and livestock field, developed in the rural parish of Chuquiribamba in the pro vince and canton of Loja in southern Ecuador, as part of the local knowledge that the populat ion has to be compared to the technical and scientific recommendations on the subject and o n the basis of this establish management and conservation plans. For the obtaining of the inf ormation, a semistructured survey consisting of open and closed questions, applied to peopl e engaged in agriculture and livestock, was used in order to know their productive forms and traditions. The results obtained reveal that the management of agricultural activities has been developed in the sector for many years, and ancestral knowledge has been passed down fro m generation to generation, based on different customs and traditions that grandparents and parents have managed to maintain to sustain their family and above all have contributed to e nsure a good management of their agricultural systems.