INKARÎKOK AMËK TUMË MËRË APAI IKSINYAKAMATOK
(THE INGARIKÓ TRADITIONAL FARMING AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS)
Ingarikó, traditional farming, cultural practices, climate change
The Ingarikó people still live by preserving and valuing their way of life, their cultural practices, their techniques for preparing their fields, and their techniques for cultivating native seeds. In addition, they preserve the environment and extract natural resources in a balanced way. And each community makes its living throughout the territory, in different places, which lead to similar ways of preparing the fields, but with some specificities. This happens because there are Ingarikó people who live in the countryside (Lavrado) and others who live in the forest (Amazon Rainforest). For this reason, the location and the types of crops will diversify throughout the space, the territory, this is the transformation of the crops throughout the space. It is possible to find, in each community, farmlands, virgin forest, and capoeira. Throughout time, we have faced problems with food production, with the result of the planting. This transformation over time has led us to realize that the planting is no longer suppressing our food. Our fields as well as the Ingarikó people have suffered, we are facing production problems. Both in the rainy periods and in the summer (drought), for example, the flooding of the fields is a constant, we experience the rotting of the seeds, and pests attacking the seeds. For this circumstance, this research seeks to understand and describe the Ingarikó fields and their transformation, analyzing the problems faced by the Ingarikó people, especially in the area of production and also observing the climate changes that are always affecting and decreasing the number of farms and the production in each family. For this research we interviewed the elders and also the people who are currently managing the fields to understand their interpretations of what is happening.