The ManoVuelta Project: insights from a decade of community-based multidisciplinary research in Veracruz, Mexico
ManoVuelta is a project that works in collaboration with ten farming communities in the Cofre de Perote region of Veracruz, Mexico since 2015. These communities are distributed along a gradient of altitude and distance from centers of economic, commercial, and service activity. The project aims to document, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the role of agroecological, socioeconomic, demographic, and cultural factors in food security, dietary quality and diversity, and household health, as a function of their degree of dependence in family milpas. In this seminar, I will share some of the main findings related to nutritional and health indicators, as well as reflections on the lessons learned, challenges, opportunities, and rewards of a community-based bioanthropological research project.
Nancy Hickey
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