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The author is grateful to the Campus Leon of the University of Guanajuato, for the financial support received for the Department of Research Support and Postgraduate within the "Call 2018, of complementary support for publications of students and professors"; as well as the University Observatory of Food and Nutritional Security of the State of Guanajuato (OUSANEG).

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