Abstract

GARCIA-NAVARRO, María; RAMIREZ-VALVERDE, Benito; CESIN-VARGAS, Alfredo  and  JUAREZ-SANCHEZ, Pedro. Family livestock of backyard in an indigenous totonaca community. Abanico vet [online]. 2022, vol.12, e2021-20.  Epub June 23, 2023. ISSN 2448-6132.  https://doi.org/10.21929/abavet2022.5.

Backyard livestock raising by Mexican peasant and indigenous families is part of the livelihood strategies to achieve food security. With the objective of providing information on the productive management of the livestock component in the backyard of Totonaca families, an investigation was carried out in the community of Lipuntahuaca, located in the Totonaca municipality of Huehuetla, Puebla, in a sample of 76 families selected at random. We worked with three groups of producers and conducted a cluster analysis, Fisher's exact test, a Chi-square test and the calculation of means to determine the variance and establish differences between groups, as well as Fisher's exact test to analyze the variables: animal ownership and whether the producer is considered poor. The results indicate that the number of species owned by the families is low, with an average of 10 birds, and only 17% have pigs. It was observed that this activity contributes mainly to self-consumption, since the income obtained is very low. Due to the economic precariousness faced by the families in the community, this production constitutes an important source of food that plays a fundamental role in their subsistence.

Keywords : livestock production; self-consumption; subsistence; poverty.

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