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Phytochemical profile and phenolic content of traditional milpa vegetables

Agro Productividad
Objective: To analyze qualitatively the variation of phytochemicals and determine the content of total phenolic compounds (TPC) and total flavonoids (TF) in nine leafy vegetables and two fruits traditionally harvested from the milpa in Tlaxcala, Mexico.
Adriana Delgado Alvarado, Yoshira A. Ramos-Cuamatzi, B. Herrera-Cabrera, Ángel Bustamante-González, P. Fuentes-Herrera   +4 more
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Glyphosate-Induced Shifts in Edaphic Microbiota: A Comparative Study of Bacterial and Fungal Responses in Historical Milpa Soils

Diversity
Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide worldwide and in Mexico; however, its effects on soil microbiota in traditional agroecosystems remain unclear.
María Alejandra Ocaña-Ek, Anell del Carmen García-Romero, O. Álvarez-Rivera, M. Tzec-Gamboa, Héctor Estrada-Medina, M. M. Ferrer   +5 more
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Adaptation practices and challenges of the milpa intercropped in fruit trees (MIAF) system to cope climate change

Agro Productividad
The objective of the research was to describe and analyze the main practices and challenges presented by the Milpa Intercropped in Fruit Trees (MIAF) system in the face of the variability of climate change (CC) prevailing in the MIAF Module San Andrés ...
A. CAPETILLO BURELA, Arturo Pérez Vázquez, Salvador Partida Sedas, C. J. López Collado, R. Zetina Lezama, M. A. Reynolds Chávez   +5 more
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Producción excepcional de maíz en humedal: la milpa marceña de Tabasco, México

Revista de Geografía Agrícola
En la región geomórfica denominada Planicie Costera del Sureste, entre los ríos Tonalá y Grijalva, se encuentra la planicie aluvial tabasqueña, la cual conforma un gran humedal con predominio de pantanos estacionales de vegetación herbácea conocida como ...
J. R. Aguirre Rivera, Á. I. Ortiz-Ceballos   +1 more
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Milpa, a Long-Standing Polyculture for Sustainable Agriculture

Agriculture
Polyculture, or intercropping, is the practice of growing two or more crops simultaneously in time and space. The milpa is a systematic polyculture involving the simultaneous cultivation of maize (Zea mays), beans (Phaseolus spp.), squash (Cucurbita spp.)
Cecilio Mota-Cruz, Alejandro Casas, Rafael Ortega-Paczka, Hugo Perales, E. Vega-Peña, R. Bye   +5 more
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Foods from the Mayan milpa: proposal for the metabolic syndrome management

The Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
The growing prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) is a major public health issue. The traditional Maya milpa diet (MayDiet) offers a promising alternative to the Mediterranean diet (MetDiet) due to its similar therapeutic benefits.
Victoria Vera Pineda, Jonatan Jafet Uuh Narvaez, Diana Cabañas Vargas, Rafael Rojas Herrera, M. R. Segura Campos   +4 more
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Diversidad y percepción sociocultural sobre insectos en el agroecosistema de milpa maya-ch’ol de Chiapas, México

Revista Lasallista de Investigación
Introducción: los insectos forman parte de la agrobiodiversidad de la milpa, su riqueza y abundancia se relacionan ampliamente con las formas de manejo, además los saberes y valores tradicionales sobre estos organismos dirigen este agroecosistema hacia ...
Denis Sánchez-Astudillo, Guadalupe Rodríguez-Galván, Lourdes Zaragoza-Martínez, N. S. Gómez-Domínguez, Paola Ubiergo-Corvalán, Gonzalo Espinosa-Vásquez, Maura González-Robles   +6 more
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Weeds in Milpa: Richness, Perception, and Their Traditional Uses and Knowledge

Journal of Ethnobiology
Weeds growing in Mesoamerican traditional maizefields, or milpas, represent a reserve of genetic resources and knowledge. To explore tendencies on the influence of natural and cultural attributes on milpa weeds and their knowledge, we studied species ...
Beatriz Quiroz-González, H. M. Ramírez-Tobías, Carolina E. Ibarra-Roque, Exequiel Ezcurra   +3 more
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Subsistence Sustained: Swidden or Milpa Cultivation

2004
From the modern settlement of the southern Yucatán peninsular region to the present, smallholder farmers have followed a system of cultivation variously labeled swidden, slash-and-burn, or shifting within agricultural typologies (Watters 1971; but see Denevan 1992), and known as milpa in the Yucatán and Maya lowlands.
Klepeis, Peter, Vance, Colin, Keys, Eric, Mendoza, Pedro Macario, Turner II, B. L.   +4 more
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Characterization of the milpa system in four rural communities

Agro Productividad
The Mesoamerican polyculture called milpa was and is the basis of traditional agriculture in Central America, but it is being displaced by monoculture. The biocultural importance of the milpa is based on the traditional knowledge of rural communities and
Jose Manuel Epifanio Rayón, Saúl Rojas Herández, Teolincacihuatl Romero Rosales, Rocío Toledo Aguilar, Jaime Olivares Pérez, María de Jesús Olea Reséndiz   +5 more
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