Traditional knowledge of baniwa peppers

Abstract

It examines the scientific and technological context that surrounds the production of the Pimenta Baniwa product and the protection of its originality, with the aim of discussing the issue of traditional knowledge that involves indigenous entrepreneurship in the Amazon. The focus of the study is the trajectory of the composition of the Pimenta Baniwa product type Jiquitaia and indigenous female protagonism. It establishes as a methodological element the metric studies of information, especially the bibliometric and patentometric field to measure the scientific and technological state of the topic, analyzing the mapping of scientific production on the topic using bibliometrics and technological indicators in patentometrics. The results demonstrate that there is a lot of scientific and technological material that contains pepper from the genus Capsicum ssp. as the main theme, however, when it comes to Baniwa Pepper, little is found within scientific research and regarding the technological domain, no type of protection directed to the product was found. It is concluded that the production of knowledge on the topic discussed is predominantly focused on the agrarian field, with an emphasis on expanding production and safeguarding pepper, with notable little production that addresses in depth the indigenous entrepreneurship of the Baniwa people.