Urban agriculture, including urban homegardens, is vital for urban survival of many people in various cities around the world, including those in the Amazon region of Brazil. These spaces, through daily praxis, become important for incidental agrodiversity conservation as food plants are cultivated and their plant material circulated. Utilizing data from a year-long intensive qualitative study of 25 rural-urban migrant households, this article considers the diversity of plant material in urban homegardens in the Amazonian city of Santarém, Pará, Brazil. The purpose of the study was to understand the social systems that maintain cultivated plant diversity in homegardens. Our objectives in this article are twofold: a) to demonstrate that plant agrodiversity in homegardens persists in a setting which is located 'at the market'; and b) to document the ways in which flows of plant material help maintain this agrodiversity.Keywords: Homegardens. Agrodiversity. Santarém (PA). Amazon. Plant exchanges. Social networks.Resumo: A agricultura urbana, incluindo quintais urbanos, é vital para a sobrevivência de muitas pessoas em várias cidades ao redor do mundo, incluindo as da Amazônia brasileira. Esses espaços, por meio da prática cotidiana, tornam-se importantes para a conservação incidental da diversidade agrícola, enquanto áreas para cultivo de plantas alimentícias e de circulação de plantas. Utilizando dados de um ano de estudo qualitativo intensivo de 25 residências de migrantes rurais-urbanos, o artigo aborda a diversidade de plantas nos quintais urbanos na cidade amazônica de Santarém, Pará, Brasil. O propósito do estudo foi compreender os sistemas sociais que mantêm a diversidade de plantas cultivadas nos quintais. Nosso objetivo neste artigo é duplo: a) demonstrar que a agrodiversidade de plantas nos quintais persiste em um cenário que se situa 'no mercado'; e b) documentar as maneiras pelas quais os fluxos de material vegetal ajudam a manter essa diversidade agrícola.Palavras-chave: Quintais. Agrodiversidade. Santarém (PA). Amazônia. Intercâmbio de plantas. Redes sociais.
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