Policy space for Mexican maize: protecting agro-biodiversity by promoting rural livelihoods
2007
T. Wise
This policy analysis examines the room for alternative policies for agricultural provisions in Mexico under existing economic and environmental agreements, including North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It gives the following recommendations for the Mexican government that could be implemented without a renegotiation of parts of NAFTA: justify the imposition of protective tariffs as countervailing measures to counter high U.S. subsidies to its corn farmers expand its own government support for the maize sector, since its current support remains billions of dollars below the country’s allowable limits under the WTO use its participation in the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to restrict imports from the United States, which contain large quantities of genetically modified corn.The report concludes that the Mexican government retains access to many useful policy instruments that could promote rural livelihoods while arresting the losses of important maize diversity. What is lacking is the political will to make use of them.Adapted from author
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