From rainforest to table: Lacandon Maya women are critical to diversify landscapes and diets in Lacanjá Chansayab, Mexico

Pérez-Volkow, Lucía; Diemont, Stewart A.W.; Selfa, Theresa; Morales, Helda; Casas, Alejandro

doi:10.1007/s10460-022-10352-z

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“…El jardín de traspatio es un sistema de manejo de recursos recurrente en diferentes regiones de México, estos espacios contiguos a los hogares son importantes reservorios de agrobiodiversidad y fuente de un amplio abanico de especies útiles, en las que sobresalen las alimenticias y medicinales, pero que también albergan plantas con otros usos, como textiles, herramientas y ornamentales (Hernández et al, 2017, Pérez-Volkow et al, 2022. En Hidalgo como uno de los estados con mayor diversidad de agaves, este género es uno de los elementos centrales de los sistemas aledaños a los hogares, funcionando como cercos vivos y proveedores de alimentos y bebida.…”

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Sistemas de manejo de agaves pulqueros en el estado de Hidalgo

Vega-García

Álvarez-Ríos²,

Figueredo-Urbina³

2023

ICBI

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Los agaves son plantas de importancia biocultural para los pueblos de México, actualmente poseen múltiples usos, entre ellos, la extracción de savia para elaborar pulque. El estado de Hidalgo es uno de los principales productores de maguey y pulque del país, sin embargo, no existe una caracterización detallada de los sistemas dedicados a este propósito. Se caracterizaron tres sistemas de manejo de agave pulquero en Hidalgo: bordos, jardín de traspatio y metepantles, evaluando la intensidad de manejo de estos a través de las especies contenidas, las prácticas, las variedades tradicionales de agave y la producción. Se registraron cinco especies y 20 variedades tradicionales de agaves pulqueros, siendo el jardín de traspatio el más diverso, con cinco especies y 10 variedades, mientras que los metepantles resultaron el más intenso, produciendo 270 litros de pulque al día. Estos sistemas conservan una amplia agrobiodiversidad de agaves y otras especies útiles, siendo espacios productivos fundamentales para la manutención de familias en contextos rurales.

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Sistemas de manejo de agaves pulqueros en el estado de Hidalgo

Vega-García

Álvarez-Ríos²,

Figueredo-Urbina³

2023

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Flavour, culture and food security: The spicy entanglements of chile pepper conservation in 21st century Mexico

Sclavo

2023

Plants People Planet

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Societal Impact StatementPolitical interests and power structures shape state‐led crop conservation and food policy. As a crop that relates to culture and belonging, the chile crop is ideal for exploring how food security policy and crop conservation schemes integrate aspects beyond staple crops, calories and/or electoral incentives. What do these schemes mean for the food and ingredients we love? Reflecting from this perspective can be useful to grasp, re‐frame and create more effective and inclusive food policies—ones that embody and valorise flavour, identities and territories beyond statements on paper.Summary In line with the Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) international action plan for crop genetic resources, the Mexican state inaugurated the National System of Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (SINAREFI) in 2002. In this paper, I explore SINAREFI's interest in landraces and in situ conservation through the case of chile pepper, set under the Ministry of Agriculture's interests of promoting industrial agriculture and paternalistic food security welfare programmes. Through the analyses of existing literature on food security in Mexico state programmes, archival work and interviews, this article analyses how discourses on food security shape research trajectories, some of which are inevitably constrained by current market‐based agricultural systems. By exploring the state's chile research and conservation programme, this work demonstrates the complexity of international food security discourse and its application domestically. Particularly, this analysis highlights the limitations of state crop research and conservation efforts imposed by contradictory agricultural policies. In the case of chile, its link to Mexican culture and diet uncovers an important, but often overlooked, aspect of food security: flavour. In the case of chile, a non‐staple but culturally symbolic crop, welfare programmes remained paternalistic and focused on caloric intake despite the transformation of national discourse on food security towards the integration of landraces and local cultures through the inauguration of SINAREFI. This case study reflects on the limits of current framings and strategies regarding food security and the need to direct policies towards local food sovereignty to achieve the necessary stability for food security to endure.

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