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- Milpa abstract "Milpa is a crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica. It has been most extensively described in the Yucatán peninsula area of Mexico. The word milpa is derived from the Nahuatl word phrase mil-pa \"on the property\" (Nahuatl mil-li \"property or estate\" + -pa \"on\"). Though different interpretations are given to it, it usually refers to a cropping field. Based on the ancient agricultural methods of Maya peoples and other Mesoamerican people, milpa agriculture produces maize, beans, and squash. The milpa cycle calls for 2 years of cultivation and eight years of letting the area lie fallow. Agronomists point out that the system is designed to create relatively large yields of food crops without the use of artificial pesticides or fertilizers, and they point out that while it is self-sustaining at current levels of consumption, there is a danger that at more intensive levels of cultivation the milpa system can become unsustainable.The word is also used for a small field, especially in Mexico or Central America, that is cleared from the jungle, cropped for a few seasons, and then abandoned for a fresh clearing. In the states of Jalisco, Michoacán, and other areas of central Mexico, the term milpa simply means a single corn plant (milpas for plural). In El Salvador and Guatemala, it refers specifically to the corn crop or corn field as a whole.Charles C. Mann described milpa agriculture as follows, in 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus:\"A milpa is a field, usually but not always recently cleared, in which farmers plant a dozen crops at once including maize, avocados, multiple varieties of squash and bean, melon, tomatoes, chilis, sweet potato, jícama, amaranth, and mucuna.... Milpa crops are nutritionally and environmentally complementary. Maize lacks the amino acids lysine and tryptophan, which the body needs to make proteins and niacin;.... Beans have both lysine and tryptophan.... Squashes, for their part, provide an array of vitamins; avocados, fats. The milpa, in the estimation of H. Garrison Wilkes, a maize researcher at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, \"is one of the most successful human inventions ever created.\"\"The concept of milpa is a sociocultural construct rather than simply a system of agriculture. It involves complex interactions and relationships between farmers, as well as distinct personal relationships with both the crops and land. For example, it has been noted that \"the making of milpa is the central, most sacred act, one which binds together the family, the community, the universe...[it] forms the core institution of Indian society in Mesoamerica and its religious and social importance often appear to exceed its nutritional and economic importance.\"Milpitas, California derives its name from the Nahuatl term \"milpa\" followed by the Spanish feminine diminutive plural suffix \"-itas\".".
- Milpa thumbnail Milpa_2011.jpg?width=300.
- Milpa wikiPageExternalLink search?val=milpa.
- Milpa wikiPageExternalLink forestgardening.php.
- Milpa wikiPageExternalLink milpa.html.
- Milpa wikiPageExternalLink www.mayaforestgardeners.org.
- Milpa wikiPageID "191142".
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- Milpa wikiPageRevisionID "704163169".
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink 1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Agriculture_in_Mesoamerica.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Agroecology.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Amaranth.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Avocado.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Bean.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Category:Agriculture_in_Mesoamerica.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Central_America.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Chili_pepper.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Chitemene.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Controlled_burn.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Crop_rotation.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Cucurbita.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Domesticated_plants_of_Mesoamerica.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Fat.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Forest_gardening.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Inga_alley_cropping.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Jalisco.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Jungle.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink La_Milpa.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Lysine.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Maize.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Maya_cuisine.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Maya_peoples.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Melon.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Mesoamerica.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Mexico.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Michoacán.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Milpitas,_California.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Mucuna.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Nahuatl.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Niacin.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Pachyrhizus_erosus.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Protein.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Season.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Shifting_cultivation.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Sphenarium_purpurascens.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Sweet_potato.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Terra_preta.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Three_Sisters_(agriculture).
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Tomato.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Tryptophan.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Vitamin.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink Yucatán_Peninsula.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLink File:Milpa_2011.jpg.
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLinkText "Milpa".
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLinkText "milpa cycle".
- Milpa wikiPageWikiLinkText "milpa".
- Milpa subject Category:Agriculture_in_Mesoamerica.
- Milpa hypernym System.
- Milpa comment "Milpa is a crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica. It has been most extensively described in the Yucatán peninsula area of Mexico. The word milpa is derived from the Nahuatl word phrase mil-pa \"on the property\" (Nahuatl mil-li \"property or estate\" + -pa \"on\"). Though different interpretations are given to it, it usually refers to a cropping field.".
- Milpa label "Milpa".
- Milpa sameAs Q1537558.
- Milpa sameAs Milpa.
- Milpa sameAs Milpa.
- Milpa sameAs Milpa.
- Milpa sameAs Milpa.
- Milpa sameAs m.01b442.
- Milpa sameAs Q1537558.
- Milpa wasDerivedFrom Milpa?oldid=704163169.
- Milpa depiction Milpa_2011.jpg.
- Milpa isPrimaryTopicOf Milpa.