Guadalupe Rodríguez Galván: Full-time Research Professor. Her lines of work are: local animal genetic resources and family farming. Member of the Grupo de Investigación Agrícola Familiar (AGRIF) at the Instituto de Estudios Indígenas de la Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas. International coordinator of the RED del Traspatio Iberoamericano (TRASIBER). National responsible (Mexico) of the binational collaboration project CONACYT – MINCYT, from which the present work is derived.