Angela May StewardFederal University of Pará | UFPA · Instituto Amazônico de Agriculturas Familiares
Angela May Steward
PhD, Ethnobotany/Sustainable Development
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Despite advances in social scientific research on African descended groups in the Americas, scholars call
attention to the need for research on human-environment relationships among these groups. This article
responds to this call and examines plant management practices in agricultural systems and associated local
knowledge systems in the Quilombo...
Economistic approaches to the study of peasant livelihoods have considerable academic and policy influence, yet, we argue, perpetuate a partial misunderstanding – often reducing peasant livelihood to the management of capital assets by rational actors. In this paper, we propose to revitalize the original heterodox spirit of the sustainable liveliho...
An established body of literature documents current changes in rural livelihoods, agricultural practices, and agrobiodiversity patterns in smallholder communities across the globe. Contributing to this literature, this paper documents change in agricultural practices and agrobiodiversity patterns in a tidal floodplain settlement in Amapá, Brazil, w...
The paper presents a study on the manioc diversity in the Middle Solimões region, focusing largely on communities located in the Sustainable Development Reserves of Mamirauá and Amanã, state of Amazonas, Brazil. The study combines quantitative and ethnographic data. The analysis of survey data collected in 13 communities in the 'várzea' and in the...
As regiões de florestas tropicais estão em constantes transformações, em parte, resultantes do manejo por populações tradicionais aonde os sistemas de cultivo itinerante (agricultura migratória e de corte queima) desempenham um importante papel. No entanto, juntamente a estas discussões, são questionados os impactos e a sustentabilidade destes sist...
Material de devolutiva de uma pesquisa científica, abordando os principais resultados para o público em geral
Material de devolutiva de uma pesquisa científica, abordando os principais resultados para o público em geral
In Amazonian foodplains, manioc four is the main plant food product and source of income for local populations. In
the context of climate change, extreme fooding is more frequent and intense, making it difcult to cultivate and process
manioc. As local knowledge is dynamic and fundamental to adapt in critical times, we studied local techniques for...
Environment‐facing interventions impact the distribution, use of and access of natural resources and have important implications for all dimensions (material, relational, quality of life) of human well‐being (HWB). Yet conventional impact metrics routinely surpass the non‐material impacts which may be particularly salient in rural contexts where sm...
Confronted with the complex environmental crises of the Anthropocene, scientists have moved towards an interdisciplinary approach to address challenges that are both social and ecological. Several arenas are now calling for co-production of new transdisciplinary knowledge by combining Indigenous knowledge and science. This book revisits epistemolog...
In Amazonia, changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events are occurring and expected to intensify, affecting food security with subsequent social and political problems. We conducted semi-structured interviews in communities of the mid-Solimões River basin (Amazonas, Brazil). Our questions were designed to construct seasonal cal...
The text makes an assessment about the policies of fire use in territories of traditional peoples and populations and the progress of environmental changes in the last decades. The increase in fires in the cerrado and Amazon regions has caused an increase in the vulnerability of these populations, arousing a growing interest, by researchers and man...
No intuito de contribuir com informações a respeito do impacto da pandemia da COVID-
19 no interior do estado do Amazonas, apresentamos um relato de caso da Reserva de
Desenvolvimento Sustentável Amanã (RDSA), na região do Médio Solimões. O objetivo
principal foi investigar os impactos da pandemia no cotidiano de moradores locais,
identificando as...
As comunidades quilombolas são grupos sociais que possuem formas próprias de organização social, ocupando e usando territórios e recursos naturais como condição para sua reprodução cultural, social, religiosa, ancestral e econômica, fazendo uso de conhecimentos, inovações e práticas gerados e transmitidos pela tradição. Neste artigo o propósito foi...
Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar a atuação das mulheres da Comunidade do Igarapé Combu da Ilha do Combu (PA) e analisar as mudanças ocorridas na organização do trabalho no âmbito familiar. Para realização desse estudo, foi levantada uma revisão teórico-conceitual sobre gênero, trabalho familiar rural e divisão sexual do trabalho. Posteriorm...
Apresentação da Revista Agricultura Familiar: Pesquisa, Formação e Desenvolvimento, v.13, n.1, 2019
Recent interdisciplinary treatments of anthropogenic fire, burning traditions, and fire
ecology illustrate how basic and applied research questions are asked and answered by
scholars working with different disciplinary or theoretical frameworks to address phenomena in unique ecological, cultural, and historical settings. Among the factors affecting...
Global environmental change has motivated multiple interventions in pursuit of sustainable outcomes within tropical forest landscapes. Fire is recognised as a key stressor facing forest conservation efforts. Large‐scale accidental fires are increasingly prevalent across the forested tropics, generating negative impacts across sectors and scales. Po...
Revista Brasileira de Agroecologia Rev. Bras. de Agroecologia. 1 2(2): 1 40-1 51 (201 7) I I S SS SN N: : 1 980-9735 Manejo e qualidade de sementes crioulas em comunidades de várzea no Médio Solimões, Amazonas Handling and quality of landrace seeds in floodplain communities in the Médio Solimões, Amazonas RESUMO: Objetivou-se com este estudo analis...
With 130 identified species, the Amazon is one region of the world which shelters the largest number of species of bees without a sting. This diversity is rarely exploited by the local communities even if certain practices like the search of honeycombs or the extraction of wild honey are very ancient. The diversification of the uses of honey and th...
With 130 identified species, the Amazon shelters the largest number of of stingless bees species. This diversity is rarely exploited by local communities even if certain practices like the search of honeycombs or the extraction of wild honey are long-standing and common customs. The diversification of honey uses and the recent use of the pollen for...
RESUMO – Este ensaio apresenta uma análise crítica de um trabalho de extensão agroflorestal conduzido na Amazônia Central (Amazonas, Brasil) entre 2011 e 2013 pelo Programa de Manejo de Agroecossistemas do Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá. As iniciativas agroflorestais basearam-se em princípios agroecológicos para promover o uso su...
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to present a brief description of the dynamics of shifting cultivation as practiced by small farmers from traditional communities of Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve, and describe the types of uses and forms of management of agroecosystems in these communities. We intend to contribute to current discuss...
Over the past 30 years, promotion of local communities gradually accompanied environmental policies in Brazil. In the case of family farming practiced in Sustainable Development Reserve Amanã, however, we show the persistent gap between the reality of land users and the approach of environmentalists. Our analysis of previous agricultural extension...
Many of the world's poorest people live in rural areas. They depend on environmental resources for their health and well-being. The rural poor depend disproportionately on trees, freshwater streams, pollinators, mangroves, and rainfall (UN Millennium Project 2005). Many rural people have grown up in those rural areas; they come from generations of...
Amazonian rural populations, both indigenous and non indigenous, have engaged in numerous livelihood activities throughout history. Researchers have well documented the character of these systems highlighting their complexity, where agriculture has long occupied a central place in both várzea (floodplain) and terra firme (upland) household economie...
Background/Question/Methods
Education has long been heralded in sustainable development discourses as pre-requisite for macro-economic development. The idea is that the intellectual and practical development of a population should lead to technical progress while fostering the cultural conditions favorable to social and economic change. Similarly,...
Over the past 15years income sources in the Amazonian community of Carvão have diversified to include government salaries,
retirement and welfare benefits, and wages from an evolving informal service sector. These non-farm incomes are now more important
to household incomes than the sale of agricultural products. Out of 80 households only three fam...
his paper provides an overview of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's New York Metropolitan Flora (NYMF) project. Previous efforts to document the flora of the New York metropolitan region are reviewed, including the contributions of many notable botanists (e.g., Arthur Cronquist, Merritt Fernald, Asa Gray, and John Torrey), institutions (e.g., Harvard Unive...
Before 1950, native Celastrus scandens (American bittersweet) was rather common in the New York Metropolitan area. Celastrus orbiculatus (Oriental bittersweet) was introduced into the region in the late 1800s. Analyses of the distribution of both species since the time of the introduction of C. scandens into the flora indicate that the native C. sc...
Questions
Questions (3)
Am begining literature review on this broad topic; papers can have different approaches and be from different geographic areas.
I am beginning a literature review with a masters student who will study this question in the context of Eastern Amazonia. We are interested in this question in reference to smallholders and their establishments -- as opposed to youth engaged in daily work for wages, however, these references are also interesting to provide more context. References from outside the region are also interesting.
I am interested in anthropological or sociological approaches (not models).
Projects
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Caracterização os sistemas de coivara na região do Médio Solimões, AM, principalmente na Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Amanã. Mapear e georeferenciar as áreas agrícolas e analisar suas configurações espaciais usando geotecnologias.
