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The Mediterranean Diet Gets All the Hype, but Mexican Milpa May Save the World
"Milpa is more sustainable because it doesn ... "It requires farming by hand because the machinery doesn’t exist to harvest a ...
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What ancient farmers can really teach us about adapting to climate change – and how political power influences success or failure
Milpa farmers adapted to drought by gently steering ... spent a fortune trying to persuade Andean farmers to revive raised field farming. Ancient raised fields had been found around Lake Titicaca ...
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The Communal Table
Every year for many years the people of Milpa Alta, Mexico, have prepared a meal before Christmas, the magnitude of which would seem to require a miracle. Sixty thousand tamales and 5,000 gallons ...