Anthropocentric use of plant in the homegarden San Pedro Ixtlahuaca, Oaxaca, México

• Main Authors: Jesús Hernández Ruiz, Rosa A. Juárez García, Nicolás Hernández Ruiz, Néstor Hernández Silva
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autónoma Indígena de México 2013-01-01
• Series: Ra Ximhai
• Subjects: Agrobiodiversity; Traditional knowledge.
• Online Access: http://uaim.mx/webraximhai/Ej-26earticulosPDF/09-USOANTROPOCENTRICODEESPECIESVEGETALESJesusHernandez.pdf

Using providing farm families plant agrobiodiversity found in the homegarden can understand how communities perceive, interpret and know the environment around them, the most illustrative approach is to generate plant elements anthropocentric categories of use defined as those where a group of people gives a utility value to the species, therefore, the objective of this research was to describe using traditional anthropocentric and families express and agrobiodiversity of plants in their homegarden, to determine use is anthropocentric applied semi-structured questionnaires with openquestions, tours and interviews, the information gathered was presented to the participating households in order to supplement such information. The results recorded were 67 species belonging to 50 genera and 37 families which are categorized into nine anthropocentric uses: medicinal in people, animal medicine, food or groceries, ornamentals, spices, or religious rituals, structural, for product development, used as firewood and to provide shade, these results show that the composition of the solar plant is based on the needs and decisions of the family unit.