Author: Alba González Jácome Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 9780367462192 Category : Languages : en Pages : 520
Book Description
This long-needed book highlights how traditional Mexican agriculture has changed according to environmental, climatic, geographical, social and cultural conditions. Grounded in archaeological-historical data from interrelated research of various scientific disciplines, the book also draws on studies made by anthropologists of varied small-scale agricultural groups. Traditional Mexican Agriculture is the result of a holistic study of Mexican agriculture. It offers the reader a perspective of traditional agriculture in Mexico from social, cultural and ecological Anthropology, Ethnology, regional and environmental History, and Agroecology, to help obtain sustainable agroecology where human societies obtain better ways of life and a healthy and nutritious food system. The book further aims to recover ideas, management, and components of local knowledge of small-scale farmers. Pitched at university students and academics, as well as researchers and developers of agricultural matters, this book will be ideal reading at agrarian universities and related institutions. It provides a basis for future studies in sustainable agricultural systems in this region.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment, Housing, and Aviation Subcommittee Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 184
Author: Juan M. Rivera Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 222
Book Description
The North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, has been one of the most hotly contested political and economic issues of the past 20 years. Contrary to much of the discussion in the U. S. media, this volume examines small family farms in Mexico which have fared worse economically since NAFTA s passage. A distinguished group of contributors provide historical background, policy analysis, case studies, comparisons with large agribusiness corporations, and recommendations for ways to improve the situation of small farms in the future. This volume will be essential to the understanding of multinational trade issues and agriculture in the twenty-first century."
Author: Timothy A. Wise Publisher: The New Press ISBN: 1620974231 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 271
Book Description
"A powerful polemic against agricultural technology." —Nature A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Most of the world, Wise reveals, is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow food. These same farmers—who already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countries—can show the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Wise takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices and nourishing a diversity of native crops without chemicals or imported seeds. They are growing more and healthier food; in the process, they are not just victims in the climate drama but protagonists who have much to teach us all.
Author: OECD Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9264030255 Category : Languages : en Pages : 332
Book Description
This report analyses the effects of Mexico’s ambitious reforms to agricultural and fisheries policies since 1990 and makes recommendations for further reforms.
Author: Gerald T. O'Mara Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: Category : Agricultura - Mexico Languages : en Pages : 29
Book Description
This model simulation suggests that prices and trade in Mexican agricultural production are sensitive to policy changes in U.S. agriculture under a scenario of trade liberalization for Mexico.
Author: OECD Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9264193030 Category : Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
This annual publication provides data on the level and composition of support and protection to agriculture, and evaluates the extent to which countries are reforming their agricultural policies.
Author: Alba González Jácome
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment, Housing, and Aviation Subcommittee
Author: Juan M. Rivera
Author: Timothy A. Wise
Author: Gretchen Heimpel
Author: Nicole Ballenger
Author: OECD
Author: Gerald T. O'Mara
Author: Reed Hertford
Author: OECD