Deanthropologizing the path of the sowers, custodians and harvesters. An ecosystemic and critical look at free sedes https://doi.org/10.11600/ale.v16i2.801

Abstract

Native and Creole seeds are at risk of extinction, as well as the knowledge and practices, whether popular or ancestral, of how to care for them, sow them and harvest them. This is due to the hegemonic practices and knowledge of agribusiness. The objective of this article is to reflect on free seeds as an inalienable common good and fundamental to guarantee life and the link between human beings and ecosystems. Recognizing how our own and ancestral knowledge comes from coexistence with the ecosystem and a constant symbiosis that involves listening, observing, recognizing and adapting to the dynamics with all living beings, but also from common sense, intuition, emotions and the autonomy of the power to decide in addition to the community exchange to select the best seeds for replanting. Even the subjects, spaces of power and the various interspecies millennial forms of caring for and guarding seeds are recognized and re-signified, to harvest food sovereignty and autonomy.