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Category : Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Working Papers
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Balance of the Status and Evolution of Agriculture and the Rural Milieu in the Americas: Challenged and Opportunities for the 21st Century
Author: Publisher: IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Politics of Food in Mexico
Author: Jonathan FoxPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801427169
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Compares a range of Mexican food policy reforms, focusing on the SAM (Mexican Food System), a program in place from 1980-82, designed to shift subsidies and privileged access from large private farmers and ranchers to peasants and small producers. In this context, Fox (political science, MIT) examines the limits and possibilities of political reform, and its history and future in the Mexican state. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Mexico in Transition
Author: Gerardo OteroPublisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848137338
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Mexico in Transition provides a wide-ranging, empirical and up-to-date survey of the multiple impacts neoliberal policies have had in practice in Mexico over twenty years, and the specific impacts of the NAFTA Agreement. The volume covers a wide terrain, including the effects of globalization on peasants; the impact of neoliberalism on wages, trade unions, and specifically women workers; the emergence of new social movements El Barzón and the Zapatistas (EZLN); how the environment, especially biodiversity, has become a target for colonization by transnational corporations; the political issue of migration to the United States; and the complicated intersections of economic and political liberalization. Mexico in Transition provides rich concrete evidence of what happens to the different sectors of an economy, its people, and natural resources, as the profound change of direction that neoliberal policy represents takes hold. It also describes and explains the diverse forms of resistance and challenge that different civil-society groups of those affected are now offering to a model the downsides of which are becoming increasingly manifest.
Mexican Foreign Trade of Agricultural and Livestock Products
Author: Antonio Yúnez-NaudePublisher:
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Category : Exports
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Mexico's Politics and Society in Transition
Author: Joseph S. TulchinPublisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781588261045
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
An exploration of the interrelated trends of Mexico's transitional politics and society. Offering perspectives on the problems on the Mexican agenda, the authors discuss the politics of change, the challenges of social development, and how to build a mutually beneficial US-Mexico relationship.
The Regional Dimension of the European Union
Author: Charlie JefferyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136311009
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Decision-making within the EU has moved to a third (regional) level of government emerging in the EU policy process alongside the first (Union) and second (member state) levels. Multi-level governance can increasingly be identified. These papers describe and analyse this third level.
Ethnicity and Class Conflict in Rural Mexico
Author: Frans J. SchryerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400860946
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
In this case study of a recent peasant uprising in an ethnically diverse region of Mexico, Frans Schryer addresses an important issue in the cultural history of Latin America: what is the relationship of class to ethnicity, and how do these two elements of cultural perception and social hierarchy reinforce or contradict each other? Examining the interaction between commercial cattle raisers and subsistence agricultural workers in both Nahua and Mestizo villages, Schryer focuses on how ethnic identities and administrative structures affect the form and outcome of agrarian struggles. He shows that class, culture, and social organization are interconnected but vary independently and demonstrates that communal land tenure and corporate structures are compatible with class differentiation and even overt class conflict within peasant communities. Schryer's data is based on archival research, direct observation, and extensive interviews with key actors involved in the conflict. His book traces the origins of local variations in legal status and ethnic relations back to the development of Indian republics, haciendas, and ranchos. By considering competing interpretations of more recent history, especially the CNBrdenas era, the author also provides insights into the mentality of protagonists involved in both ideological confrontations and armed encounters. What emerges is a detailed, comprehensive study that places as much emphasis on culture and discourse as on economic structures and political forces. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Challenge of Rural Democratisation
Author: Jonathan FoxPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317845234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
First published in 1990. The distribution of rural power in developing countries both shapes and is shaped by national politics. Focusing on Latin America and the Philippines, this volume addresses the question of why rural democratisation has proven to be so difficult across a wide range of national experiences.
The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems
Author: Philip D. McMichaelPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501736035
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Across the world, food systems and agricultural systems are changing at a phenomenal rate. Widespread restructuring has not been confined to the production and distribution of food, though; many regions and even nations are undergoing social, political, and economic transformation as well. Bringing together twelve essays by scholars from a number of disciplines, I this timely book documents the interdependence of food systems, nation states, and the world economy. Stressing the political foundations of global agro-food systems, it sheds light on such complex questions as whether today's changes in food and agrarian systems anticipate a new world order, or are merely efforts to preserve an old order in crisis.