The environmental and social impacts of economic liberalization on corn production in Mexico
2001
A. Nadal
Examines Mexico’s effort to liberalise and “modernise” its agricultural sector, and in particular its domestic production of corn.<B>Conclusions:</B>liberalisation has failed to achieve the environmental and social improvements it promised. In place of anticipated reduced pressures on marginal lands and gains in human welfare liberalisation has pushed subsistence corn producers increasingly away from environmentally sound production practices and deeper into povertythe “opening” of the Mexican corn sector is threatening to reduce the extraordinary genetic diversity of Mexican corn stocks, with potentially serious implications not only for Mexican farmers, but also for the future availability of diverse and adaptive Mexican varieties that could help feed a hungry developing world[Author]
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