Relations between practices and technologies in the Cerrado native seed collection territory
Native seeds; Women collectors; Territory; Practices; Technologies; Public policy.
This research presents a reading of the relationships between practices and technologies in the collection of native seeds for ecological restoration. To this end, a qualitative research was developed with an ethnographic approach and individual interviews with the Cerrado de Pé Association in the microregion of Chapada dos Veadeiros (GO). The investigation is based on the idea that humans and non-humans establish relationships due to the territory and worldview of collecting communities. In Cerrado de Pé, the technical-scientific history of restoration conform with the perspectives of local knowledge from settled communities, quilombolas and rural-urban contexts, making hybrids of practices and technologies interact. In this sense, the way in which collectors and technicians negotiate, adapt and translate information about collection into the Seed Delivery Form (Formulário de Entrega de Sementes) was problematized – the Form was interpreted as a technology that connects the collection work with the seed market and the political instruments that regulate seed production, expressed in the National Seed and Seedling Registry (Registro Nacional de Sementes e Mudas - Renasem). Finally, the discussion about practices, techniques and technologies repositioned the collectors' know-how, in order to reveal how they co-create technology in the interaction between different ecological notions, imprinting cosmotechnical differences in the transit between public policies, the market and their realities.