Prática do uso do fogo na agricultura e a preservação do meio ambiente entre os Agricultores de Maluana distrito da Manhiça

Abstract

The ethnographic practice allows us to enter into the world a view of the reality under study and hence the possibility of granting a firmness in the assumptions. Therefore, when proposing the debate on the Practice of the Use of Fire and the Preservation of the environment in agriculture among farmers in the district of Manhiça find a discussion that focuses on preserving the environment in agriculture focusing on physical aspects and another discussion opposite to this one, but in the sense of bringing elements that complement the assumptions of the first view on the preservation of the environment in agriculture whereas it is necessary to focus not only on aspects of the physical nature of the environment for preservation but also to social aspects. It is found that the two have limitations due to the fact that they consider farmers from a mechanical point of view. Farmers are subjects who create and recreate the logic of preserving the environment in agricultural practice and who should not, therefore, be seen as an active group. conflictual. As an example of incorporating social elements in the preservation of the environment, we find that forgetfulness of fire. The forgetfulness of the fire goes through the clemency given to the promoter of the fires in order to establish order to socio- environmental. Another way of conceiving farmers as non-mechanics is to designate some among them as those who are not yet farmers, due to the fact that they are not younger and with little work experience they have few decisive faculties on the use of fire, because they are afraid of mud because they did not grow in the agricultural practices, and finally, due to the fact that they have small work areas, which makes it difficult to use the fallow technique, they are suspected of being good participants in preserving the environment. In this way, social actors in environmental preservation are inserted in dynamic social relations and adapted to the circumstances. In doing so, it gives the possibility of a detachment from the structural-economicist theoretical approaches in which the passivity of farmers and the preservation of the environment are assumed. environment only by material imperatives. Following the ethnographic methodology, I collected the data in the locality of Munguíne in the district of Manhiça (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)