Mauricio is a human ecologist focusing on sustainable agricultural and food systems of smallholder farmers in the developing world. Mauricio’s research focuses on the reasons, incentives and dynamics of crop diversity managed by smallholder farmers in their agricultural systems—both at the inter-specific and infra-specific levels—in the developing world. Mauricio is interested in the links of crop diversity with crop evolution, human diets, seed systems, livelihoods, climate change, and agricultural technology.