Aproximación teórica sobre la agrobiodiversidad cultural del semiárido larense, desde la perspectiva docente

Abstract

Food insecurity responds to a series of factors in agricultural culture, eating habits in the territorial context, with a history and norms that determine it. The Venezuelan semi-arid is facing, within a complex crisis, this reality that undermines the potential of agrobiodiversity in the midst of poverty, poor nutrition and desertification. A theoretical approach was made on the cultural agrobiodiversity of the semi-arid larense, seen from university teachers, considering its importance in the transmission and production of knowledge for future agronomists. The study was of an interpretative type, supported by the analysis of categories that emerged from a doctoral thesis. A process of food cultural erosion is presented as a result of losses of autochthonous agrobiodiversity and substitution by globalized food species in response to the market. This crop is directly related to the conventional agricultural crop intensive in monoculture models of high environmental impact that put food sovereignty at risk. The results revealed the potential of semi-arid agrobiodiversity; as well as the devaluation of local indigenous species; which requires fostering a new food and agricultural culture for the sustainable construction of the territory.