Not By Bread Alone…
Returning to the Mesoamerican milpa agricutlural system could revitalize agriculture, while defending Mexicans and Mexico from a tangled, global necro-politics.
Food Sovereignty
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Mexican Agricultural Secretariat Receives 3,514 Applications for Corn Producer Subsidies
Mexican corn producers have been devastated by low prices resulting from the dumping of heavily subsidized corn from the US.
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Neither Corn Nor Country
The Fourth Transformation promised food self-sufficiency for Mexico and to rescue agriculture, but heavily-subsidized US imports have never been higher, while farmers go bankrupt and the crisis reaches intolerable levels.
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Berdegué, Agribusiness Hatchet Man
With a crippling national farmers strike only one bad meeting away, the government’s disregard for Mexico’s agricultural crisis has a surprising face: its Secretary of Agriculture.
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Mexican Grains Crisis Persists: Farmers Threaten More Protests
Producers in the Bajío region report they have at least 1.5 million tons of corn unsold, while in Zacatecas, 80% of bean producers cannot sell their harvest.
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Mexican Farmers Will Stop World Cup
Campesinos, who shut down border crossings and major highways twice last year and face ruin due to the dumping of US crops, believe the government is sacrificing Mexican agriculture in order to secure a USMCA deal.
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Clicks
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including a world without the USMCA or the death of Mexican agriculture, Indigenous rights, and the lingering threat of US military aggression against Mexico.
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Mexican Farmers & Agriculture Secretariat Dialogue Resumes Today
Mexican agriculture remains in crisis: 10 million tons of grain can’t be sold, the government is not meeting agreements while US dumping destroys the market & even limits access to credit to help farms last another season.
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Record Corn Imports for Third Year in a Row
Mexico’s food sovereignty is being rapidly eroded thanks to the dumping of heavily subsidized US corn and the USMCA, which is an erroneously named “trade” agreement to subjugate, not develop, the Mexican nation.
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Zacatecas Bean Farmers Protest Non-Operational Collection Centers
Farmers are guaranteed a price of 27 pesos per kilo from the federal government centers, compared to the 7-12 pesos that intermediaries or coyotes pay them. But there’s one catch: they aren’t operating.
