The USMCA is Causing a Decline in Mexican Agriculture
What can the phrase “Without corn, there is no country” mean when domestic corn production is on its last legs in the face of US dumping and the state’s inability to fight neoliberal free trade?
Food Sovereignty
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Mexico’s Agriculture & Economy Secretariats Pushing to Stop Labeling GMO & Toxic Pesticide Use in Food
Mexico’s Secretariat of Health was to have established mandatory labeling regulations a year and a half ago, but is in violation of the General Law. Critics point to industry interests.
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Using Tear Gas & Water Cannon, Tlaxcala State Police Disperse Farmers & Transporters Strike
The situation of FNRCM members in Tlaxcala is unknown. Meanwhile the state government announced that traffic has been restored on the roads.
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The Return of the Farmers
The fact that the authorities have spoken with the farmers doesn’t mean their demands have been met. Caught between the fire of the USMCA and the wall of public policies that strangle or abandon them, they are fighting for their survival.
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Mexico National Farmers Strike, Day 1
Driven by concerns over US crop dumping, monopoly profiteering, the decline of food sovereignty & insufficient state support, farmers have struck for the third in six months. Now transporters have joined.
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Mexico’s National Farmers Strike Begins Today in 20 States
Organizers considered the government’s has no interest in resolving the agricultural crisis, and balked at the demand that they not hold any demonstrations during this year’s World Cup.
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Mexico Imports Record Amount of Corn From US
Despite this multi-billion dollar business, the US Trade Representative continues to assert a series of non-tariff barriers prevent the free access of genetically modified corn to Mexican territory.
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High Oil & Fertilizer Prices are Impacting Mexican Agriculture
Research professor Gerardo Noriega says the cost of armed and trade wars has hit Mexican agricultural producers hard.
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Mexican Farmers Strike Starts March 23rd: “We will do everything in our power to prevent the World Cup from taking place”
The objective of the mobilizations is to pressure large importers & grain buyers, who buy subsidized US imports instead of national production.
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The Inconsistencies of Ebrard
Mexico’s Secretary of Economy touts a new trade policy of origin over price, yet the import of highly subsidized staple grains benefits US producers at the expense of Mexico’s domestic producers.
