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Evidence on the sustainable management of native agrobiodiversity in traditional Mexican markets

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The study of ethnobotanical knowledge could represent a scientific resource to explore how the diet of the world's population could be diversified. To this end, native agrobiodiversity management (NAM) is an understudied socioecological phenomenon requiring much greater research. Due to this, we hypothesize whether it is possible to characterize ethnobotanical knowledge around edible native agrobiodiversity in traditional markets through a case study. Therefore, we used the ethnographic method to establish the social, ecological and economic evidence of NAM through an ethnobotanical census in 4 cities in southwestern Mexico. First, we collected, systematized, and classified ethnobotanical knowledge about NAM. Subsequently, we undertook a census that documented 32 native agri-foods, with the presence of the fruit and plant group standing out. Additionally, we found that the food resource belongs to 23 species of native plants and 2 species of wild mushroom. Consequently, species diversity is high based on the Shannon index classification. Furthermore, NAM’s total trade volume for the study period was 47.23 tons. Thus, we propose a novel framework for studying the evidence on the sustainable management of agrobiodiversity. Finally, with these findings we propose a transdisciplinary sustainability approach to measure the impact of agrobiodiversity. Therefore, our study framework established the economic, ecological and social evidence within the management of native agrobiodiversity in traditional markets for future research.

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We acknowledge first and foremost the marketers of agricultural products who preserve the biocultural knowledge of edible native foods. We also appreciate the support of the municipal authorities who facilitated the study in traditional markets. Finally, we are grateful for the support of the academic authorities of the Universidad Veracruzana, Faculty of Biological and Agricultural Sciences, Campus Cordoba and Mexico’s Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías (CONAHCYT).

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Vazquez-Martin, A.E., Aguilar-Rivera, N., Diaz-Jose, J. et al. Evidence on the sustainable management of native agrobiodiversity in traditional Mexican markets. Environ Dev Sustain (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-05052-z

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