Community | December 20, 2010 | 11 comments

NAFTA + U.S. Farm Subsidies Devastates Mexican Agriculture

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Why Do Mexican Workers Head North Pt2 - Tim Wise: U.S. corn exported to Mexico at 19% below cost of production, based on his study.

Bio

Timothy A. Wise is Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, and leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. With a background in international development, he specializes in agricultural policy and rural development. He is involved in ongoing research in the areas of: Sustainable Rural Development, Beyond Agricultural Subsidies, Mexico Under NAFTA, WTO and Global Trade. He is the co-author of the book (in English and Spanish), Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico, and The Promise and the Perils of Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Lessons from Latin America. He is the former executive director of Grassroots International, a Boston-based international aid organization. He holds a Masters in Public Policy from Tufts' Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department.
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    NAFTA,  Mexican Farmers,  Timothy A. Wise
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11 comments // NAFTA + U.S. Farm Subsidies Devastates Mexican Agriculture // Video

  • artemis6
    • +3
      artemis6  

    • We are a terrible neighbor . It is not even in out best interest to destabilize Mexico . A win / win for big ag , A lose / lose for everyone else .

    • 1 year ago
  • a619ko
    • +5
      a619ko  

    • Well duh...I mean, we have all the land and resources to solve hunger, but instead, big agricultural corporations are busy screwing other governments over.
      NAFTA works like this:
      US can afford agricultural machinery, Mexico can't.
      USA over produces corn, crashes Mexican corn industries. Now we have a problem, Mexico can't sell because it's competitor is just selling the corn at low unimaginable prices...Now once all the Mexican small corporations are destroyed and out of the way. Mexico is at the MERCY of the US, anything the US says or does goes. If Mexico disagrees, USA blocks the corn trade. Now you created another problem, Mexico cannot feed its people without US help because of NAFTA, and another problem is created, the corn farmers don't have JOBS, and so another problem comes to be, Mexican farmers migrate to the US, and who is picking your fruit now? and don't gimme that shit about taking yer job!

      The US has Mexico by the balls, and it is really sad- Mexico has so much room for improvement, but just can't because the US will just stop that. Some good neighbors, eh?

    • 1 year ago
  • galwayman
    • -3
      galwayman  

    • NAFTA was a bad idea in the first place and so was the DREAM Act! The American people were not going to support it! Immigrants steal jobs and cost us tax dollars,in addition until EVERY American has a place to live,and access to an education, we have no business giving away our resources to illegal immigrants! Due to forclosures American families are homeless,staving,and how can our children get an education under those conditions? I say AMERICANS FIRST!

    • 1 year ago
  • Progresshiv
  • treewolf39
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • bailey78
    • +4
      bailey78  
    • ThatCrazyLibertarian:

      I like the mexican marijuana and I smoke a lot of it when I can. I also know that some of the folks in Washington are getting richer on the U.S. corn exported to Mexico. Thats just one more reason for a cap on the donations from the large Corporations and lobbiest.

    • 1 year ago
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