Tianguis and sales points are places for buying, socializing, community organization, and the exchange of essential goods for daily life. In these markets, products from milpas and agroforestry systems are sold, such as native corn, beans, squash, coffee, cocoa, honey, fruits, vegetables, medicinal plants, preserves, processed products, and crafts. Many of these foods are produced with agroecological practices, without agrochemicals, and through the use of biofertilizers, compost, and leachates made in the Peasant Learning Communities themselves. This has a direct impact on the health of Mexicans. Since pre-Hispanic times, the peoples of Mesoamerica established local markets where food, seeds, tools, textiles, and knowledge were exchanged. These spaces were called tianguis, a word from the Nahuatl tianquiztli. The Ministry of Well-being, through the Undersecretariat for Productive Inclusion and Rural Development and the Sembrando Vida program, reported that during 2025, 3,880 peasant tianguis were held in the country's municipal seats, parks, and plazas. This represents a community commercial expansion that brings healthy, quality food to the local population, while strengthening local production, the peasant economy, and the direct link between producers and consumers. To this are added 50 sales points in the country, through self-managed stores located in the communities of the sowers, as well as an offer of more than 4,000 processed products, resulting from the productive, organizational, and commercial work promoted by the program. In addition, the healthy eating of Mexican families is strengthened through peasant tianguis, direct sales spaces where sowers offer fresh, prepared, and transformed, local, and agroecologically produced foods, without intermediaries and with greater benefit for rural communities. Tianguis have deep roots in the history of Mexico. By bringing fresh, nutritious, diverse, and culturally relevant foods, Sembrando Vida contributes to improving family nutrition and strengthening the right to good eating. The production of fruits, vegetables, grains, and transformed foods derived from the milpa and fruit trees makes this program a comprehensive public policy that not only boosts the peasant economy but also a healthier food offering for the population. With these actions, the Government of Mexico materializes an alternative for rural development with social justice, where the land produces food, community, economy, culture, and well-being. Peasant tianguis, sales points, and the wide offer of fresh, prepared, and transformed products from Sembrando Vida show that the Mexican countryside is a living force to strengthen healthy eating, the local economy, and self-sufficiency from the territories.
