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Embodying Milpa: Centering Place to Cultivate Polycultures of Reciprocity in Learning Environments

Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 2023
Milpa is an ancestral agriculture technique that has been passed down by Indigenous communities in so-called North America for millennia through stories of place.
Daniel Gallardo
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Milpa y seguridad alimentaria: El caso de San Pedro El Alto, México

Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2018
La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura declara el derecho a la alimentación en el marco de la seguridad alimentaria, en el cual la agrodiversidad es componente fundamental porque se relaciona con procesos de ...
Alicia Yaneth Vásquez González, Cristina Chávez Mejía, Francisco Herrera Tapia, Fermín Carreño Meléndez   +3 more
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Le maïs et la mémoire bioculturelle de Mésoamérique

Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2021
Our contribution focuses on revisiting the theme of maize and the regenerative traditional agricultural system called milpa (corn-beans-squash) in its cosmogonic, cognitive, and practical context within the Mesoamerican agricultural tradition.
Víctor M. Toledo, Narciso Barrera-Bassols   +1 more
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Optimizing milpa agrosystems with beneficial microbes and their ecological interactions: a review

Discover Applied Sciences
Ensuring food security through sustainable systems remains a key goal for the agricultural sector. However, poor crop management practices in recent decades have caused significant ecological harm, evidenced by climate change impacts, soil degradation ...
Blanca Rojas-Sánchez, S. de los Santos-Villalobos, Juan J. Valdez Alarcón, Ana T. Chávez-Bárcenas, M. D. C. Orozco-Mosqueda, Gustavo Santoyo   +5 more
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Farmer preferences for milpa diversity and genetically modified maize in Mexico: a latent class approach [PDF]

, 2007
Maize, the second most globally important staple crop after wheat, originated in Mexico, where it is typically grown as part of a set of associated crops and practices called the milpa system.
Birol, E., Smale, M., Villalba, E.
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Revival of traditional agricultural systems – A multidisciplinary on‐farm survey of maize‐bean intercropping reveals unexpected competition effects on beans

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 6, Page 1755-1770, November 2025.
Cereal‐legume intercropping is a promising strategy for sustainable agroecosystems, leveraging the biological complementarities between plant species to reduce the need for inputs while enhancing field biodiversity. Here, we focused on maize‐bean intercropping, which is experiencing a revival in conventional agricultural settings.
Noa Vazeux‐Blumental, Laura Mathieu, Théo Trabac, Carine Palaffre, Bernard Lagardère, Maryse Carraretto, Cyril Bauland, Martine Le Guilloux, Christine Paysant Le Roux, José Caïus, Anne Marmagne, Jérôme Enjalbert, Timothée Flutre, Edith Le Cadre, Virginie Parnaudeau, Daniel Muller, Yvan Moënne‐Loccoz, Domenica Manicacci, Maud I. Tenaillon   +18 more
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Mayan Traditional Knowledge on Weather Forecasting: Who Contributes to Whom in Coping With Climate Change?

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
Despite international commitments to integrate indigenous peoples and their Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in actions combating climate change, their inclusion remains limited.
Tania Carolina Camacho-Villa, Tania Eulalia Martinez-Cruz, Alejandro Ramírez-López, Matias Hoil-Tzuc, Silvia Terán-Contreras   +4 more
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Assembling Nutrition‐sensitive Agriculture: How Global Food Security Projects Are Sustained Despite Tensions, Contradictions and Failure

Development and Change, Volume 56, Issue 6, Page 1167-1196, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines the global discourse surrounding nutrition‐sensitive agriculture (NSA) and its implementation within Feed the Future, a food security initiative of the US Agency for International Development in Guatemala. It explores how such global nutrition efforts have increasingly incorporated critiques advanced by critical nutrition
Carrie Seay‐Fleming
wiley   +1 more source

Challenging Agroecology—Promise and Pitfalls for Agrarian Studies

Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 25, Issue 3, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Within agrarian studies, promoting agroecology is widely held as a key objective to animate progressive change with social and environmental benefits across rural regions. Yet, in practice, many questions remain salient concerning the political economy and social dynamics of agroecological transitions.
Ben M. McKay, Georgina Catacora‐Vargas, Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Jessie K. Luna   +4 more
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Universal mental health screening with a focus on suicidal behaviour using smartphones in a Mexican rural community: protocol for the SMART-SCREEN population-based survey

BMJ Open, 2020
Introduction Mental disorders represent the second cause of years lived with disability worldwide. Suicide mortality has been targeted as a key public health concern by the WHO.
Pavel E Arenas-Castañeda, Fuensanta Aroca Bisquert, Ismael Martinez-Nicolas, Luis A Castillo Espíndola, Igor Barahona, Cynthya Maya-Hernández, Martha Miriam Lavana Hernández, Paulo César Manrique Mirón, Daniela Guadalupe Alvarado Barrera, Erik Treviño Aguilar, Axayácatl Barrios Núñez, Giovanna De Jesus Carlos, Anabel Vildosola Garcés, Josselyne Flores Mercado, Maria Luisa Barrigon, Antonio Artes, Santiago de Leon, Cristian Antonio Molina-Pizarro, Arsenio Rosado Franco, Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, Philippe Courtet, Gonzalo Martínez-Alés, Enrique Baca-Garcia   +22 more
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