Creating hybrid scientific knowledge and practice: the Jesuit and Guaraní cultivation of yerba mate

Nimmo, Evelyn R.; Nogueira, João Francisco Miró Medeiros

doi:10.1080/08263663.2019.1652018

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“…These systems are both critical to the farms' income and food security [106,107]. These traditional agroforestry systems that have developed over generations, with roots in the Guaraní Indigenous knowledge, are now engrained in settler community food production practices [108]. As such, the relationship of these traditional producers to their land is intimately tied to their relationship to the forest and their roles as stewards and knowledge holders [109].…”

Section: Solidarity and Knowledge Sharing Through Global Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grassroots and Global Governance: Can Global–Local Linkages Foster Food System Resilience for Small Northern Canadian Communities?

Johnston¹,

Spring

2021

Sustainability

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Communities in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT) are at the forefront of the global climate emergency. Yet, they are not passive victims; local-level programs are being implemented across the region to maintain livelihoods and promote adaptation. At the same time, there is a recent call within global governance literature to pay attention to how global policy is implemented and affecting people on the ground. Thinking about these two processes, we ask the question: (how) can global governance assist northern Indigenous communities in Canada in reaching their goals of adapting their food systems to climate change? To answer this question, we argue for a “community needs” approach when engaging in global governance literature and practice, which puts community priorities and decision-making first. As part of a collaborative research partnership, we highlight the experiences of Ka’a’gee Tu First Nation, located in Kakisa, NWT, Canada. We include their successes of engaging in global network building and the systemic roadblock of lack of formal land tenure. Moreover, we analyze potential opportunities for this community to engage with global governance instruments and continue connecting to global networks that further their goals related to climate change adaptation and food sovereignty.

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Section: Solidarity and Knowledge Sharing Through Global Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grassroots and Global Governance: Can Global–Local Linkages Foster Food System Resilience for Small Northern Canadian Communities?

Johnston¹,

Spring

2021

Sustainability

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“…By the end of the eighteenth century, a process of westward colonization began in Paraná, and to some extent Santa Catarina state, originating from the coastal/eastern region and moving through the region's highlands. This colonization process was characterized by an economy based on cattle husbandry, erva-mate harvesting (a resource that had only recently begun to be exploited in the regional economy, despite its economic importance since early Spanish colonization in the seventeenth century [27]) and the logging of araucaria or Paraná pine (Araucaria angustifolia) [28]. More intense colonization did not happen until later, with a migratory influx of Germans, Italians, Poles, and Ukrainians, among others, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as part of a government policy to occupy the 'unoccupied' hinterlands of the country [29].…”

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Leveraging Traditional Agroforestry Practices to Support Sustainable and Agrobiodiverse Landscapes in Southern Brazil

Lacerda

Hanisch

Nimmo

2020

Land

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Integrated landscape approaches have been identified as key to addressing competing social, ecological, economic, and political contexts and needs in landscapes as a means to improve and preserve agrobiodiversity. Despite the consistent calls to integrate traditional and local knowledge and a range of stakeholders in the process of developing integrated landscape approaches, there continues to be a disconnect between international agreements, national policies, and local grassroots initiatives. This case study explores an approach to address such challenges through true transdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder research and outreach to develop solutions for integrated landscapes that value and include the experience and knowledge of local communities and farmers. Working collaboratively with small-scale agroforestry farmers in Southern Brazil who continue to use traditional agroecological practices to produce erva-mate (Ilex paraguariensis), our transdisciplinary team is working to collect oral histories, document local ecological knowledge, and support farmer-led initiatives to address a range of issues, including profitability, productivity, and legal restrictions on forest use. By leveraging the knowledge across our network, we are developing and testing models to optimize and scale-out agroforestry and silvopastoral systems based on our partners’ traditional practices, while also supporting the implementation of approaches that expand forest cover, increase biodiversity, protect and improve ecosystem services, and diversify the agricultural landscape. In so doing, we are developing a strong evidence base that can begin to challenge current environmental policies and commonly held misconceptions that threaten the continuation of traditional agroforestry practices, while also offering locally adapted and realistic models that can be used to diversify the agricultural landscape in Southern Brazil.

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“…At the time of contact with the Spanish in the early sixteenth century, the Guaraní were semi-sedentary agriculturalists with a history of approximately 2,000 years in Southern Brazil (Bonomo et al 2015; Brochado 1980). The Guaraní planted manioc, sweet potato and other tubers, a variety of beans, and peanuts, among many other cultivars (Noelli and Corrêa 2016); they also took advantage of the rich natural forest resources available in the Atlantic Forest biome, including pine nuts (from Araucaria angustifolia ) and yerba mate ( Ilex paraguariensis ; Nimmo and Nogueira 2019), along with hunting and fishing. Guaraní villages were made up of five or six extended family groups (each of 10–60 nuclear families) that lived together in large communal houses.…”

Section: Boxes Of Pot Sherdsmentioning

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Approaching Archaeological Museum Collections through the Concept of Assemblage: The Case Study of the Jesuit Mission San Ignacio Miní (1610–1631)

Nimmo

2020

Latin Am. antiq.

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In Brazil, as in most countries, history and natural history museums are the repositories of rich collections of excavated archaeological material. One of the major challenges in working with these collections is the paucity of information available regarding the original excavations, which raises important questions that archaeologists and museum studies professionals have been grappling with for several decades: what interpretive value do these collections have without any contextual information, and are they worth maintaining in museum archives that are facing continuing crises in space and resources? This article uses the concepts of entanglement and assemblage to discuss a collection of ceramics excavated from one of the first Spanish Jesuit missions in colonial Paraguay, San Ignacio Miní (1610–1631), and housed at the Museu Paranaense in Curitiba, Brazil. Despite the lack of contextual information from the 1963 excavation, we can begin to explore the entangled pasts, present, and future of these objects by tracing the trajectory of the collection from the initial formation through excavation and contemporary analysis. Innovative approaches are needed to address methodological and theoretical concerns in analyzing archaeological museum collections to ensure that the knowledge and potential insights entangled in these collections are not lost.

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Creating hybrid scientific knowledge and practice: the Jesuit and Guaraní cultivation of yerba mate

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Grassroots and Global Governance: Can Global–Local Linkages Foster Food System Resilience for Small Northern Canadian Communities?

Grassroots and Global Governance: Can Global–Local Linkages Foster Food System Resilience for Small Northern Canadian Communities?

Leveraging Traditional Agroforestry Practices to Support Sustainable and Agrobiodiverse Landscapes in Southern Brazil

Approaching Archaeological Museum Collections through the Concept of Assemblage: The Case Study of the Jesuit Mission San Ignacio Miní (1610–1631)

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