Traditional knowledge in the exercise of sovereignty and food security of rural, indigenous and peasant communities: an alternative for community sustainability

Abstract

The text presents some reflections on the importance of rescuing the traditional knowledge of rural, indigenous and peasant communities about agricultural and food practices as a resource and mechanism to promote food security and thus community sustainability. It begins with a bibliographic review on the subject, and specific cases are presented, as an example, where the experience has become an opportunity for some communities to assert their land management rights, the processes that are required for diversity of crops, their own production system and thus mitigate the effects of poverty and consolidate an alternative proposal for the exercise of sovereignty and food security of the communities.