Abstract:
The Mandalla system is an innovation in production technology that has been well disseminated
in Northeast Brazil and in the Mulundu Settlement was introduced in the agricultural system of
community. The aim of this study was to expose the use of the mandalla, its installation in the
community and the appropriation of the technology by the farmers, in order to analyze their
contribution from the real reports of the use of the traditional homegardens. The methodology
included Ethnography, with the use of the field notebook Rapid Participative Diagnostics and
workshops with participatory methodologies. Families and their tasks are fundamental to
understanding reality and in this dynamic there are different ways of thinking, acting and even
producing. In the mandalla system the families that previously produced a diversity of activities
that supplied their needs follow a model that was imposed, which carries a theory and must
practice it and start to dedicate themselves to a camouflaged production chain, since the
productive system presents functionality through available water making it unproductive most of
the year taking into account the climatic conditions of the semi-arid region of Ceara, Brazil. |
