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I TIKMũ'ũN AGROFORESTRY AGENT TRAINING COURSE
October 2-20, 2023

As a combined field of study, Agroforestry seeks to assimilate academic and traditional knowledge (from Indigenous and traditional peoples) based on the principles of conservation and sustainable use of natural resources and agroforestry, while maintaining food production. Just as in the wild, where the diversity of plants and animals achieves environmental balance, it is possible to preserve this balance by introducing productive species through the cultivation of short-cycle agricultural varieties, whether annual, multiannual, or perennial, fruit-bearing tree and forest species, as well as the raising and management of domestic and wild animals, provided that the types of production appropriate to each biome or ecosystem are planned. Bringing together the 30 Tikmũ'ũn agroforestry agents from the Cachoeirinha, Aldeia Verde, Aldeia-Escola-Floresta, Água Boa, and Pradinho Indigenous Lands in the Aldeia Nova Vila of the Maxakali Indigenous Land, the 8 nurserymen from the Pradinho Indigenous Land, and students from FIEI-UFMG, the course covered topics such as seedling production; implementation and management of agroforestry; agroforestry design; riparian forest restoration; reforestation; wetland enrichment; and indigenous ecology. The course was coordinated by Renato Gavazzi and taught by Paula Lima, Josias Maná Huni Huin (Indigenous Agroforestry Agent of Acre), and Renato Gavazzi.

Our forest will return!

And the animals will walk inside it…

There will be lots of honey and lots of embaúba!

Big-bellied wood…

For our aunts to weave their bags and hammocks…

Our forest will return!

There will be vines too!

Yes, vines and bamboo to make arrows!

That's all. My name is Zé Arnaldo!

Joe Arnold

Ethnomapping workshop, Água Boa, Aldeia Ãmãxux, May 2023

Let me tell you!

We have gathered here today and are writing on paper.

And let's plant seedlings to bear fruit and we'll take them to the yãmĩyxop to eat!

That's what we're doing here.

Look! We're going to plant seedlings on the side of the road and when they bear fruit we'll feed the yãmĩyxop

The forest will come out! Watch your children so they don't set fires!

I'm not cursing you! I'm just explaining.

But it's very good! That's all!

My name is Marizete! I'm a culture teacher.

Very good!

Marizete Maxakali

Ethnomapping workshop, Água Boa, Aldeia Ãmãxux, May 2023

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