The importance of the traditional milpa in food security and nutritional self-sufficiency in the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico

• Ivan P. Novotny ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ivan.novotny@usys.ethz.ch

  Affiliations Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, Mexico, Farming Systems Ecology, Plant Sciences Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1438-3711

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• Pablo Tittonell ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pablo Tittonell, Mariela H. Fuentes-Ponce

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Agroecology, Environment and Systems Group, Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias de Bariloche (IFAB), INTA-CONICET, Bariloche, Argentina, Agroécologie et Intensification Durable (AïDA), Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Kathmandu, Nepal, Groningen Institute of Evolutionary Life Sciences, Groningen University, Groningen, Netherlands

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• Mariela H. Fuentes-Ponce ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pablo Tittonell, Mariela H. Fuentes-Ponce

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Producción Agrícola y Animal, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco, Mexico, Mexico

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• Santiago López-Ridaura,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Sustainable Intensification, Texcoco, Mexico

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• Walter A. H. Rossing

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Farming Systems Ecology, Plant Sciences Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands

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