Local knowledge of agricultural production technologies and strategies for climate resilience

• Main Authors: Loayza-Aguilar Juan, Blanco-Capia Luis Edgar, Bernabé-Uño Adalid, Ayala-Flores Gonzaga
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Selva Andina Research Society 2020-05-01
• Series: Journal of the Selva Andina Biosphere
• Subjects: central highlands of bolivia; climate change; participatory revaluation research; ancestral technologies.
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.org.bo/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2308-38592020000100004&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=es

The research was carried out in the 2017-2018 agricultural cycle, in four characteristic communities of the Municipality of Toledo of the Oruro department of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. The objective was to identify local knowledge about agricultural production technologies and strategies that can generate sustainability in agricultural production systems to strengthen the resilience of Climate Change. The approach used was logical cultural historical research, participatory revaluative research. According to the results, it was possible to identify 10 agricultural production technologies used with the highest frequency, of which are used by the producers with the highest incidence (100%) is the wijiña (conical deposit dug in the ground to accumulate rainwater), followed by because it has a preference for 79.3% of producers, the kurmi khotas (traps to harvest rainwater) that only 16.6% of producers use. From these technologies grouped into 4 CC-resistant agricultural production strategies, it is evident that the Rainwater management plan and the management and management of native pastures and forage species introduced by those that the producer approves in their production systems.