NAFTA, Hybrid Corn, Oaxaca Milpas and Climate Change: Which Corn Will Survive?
June 16, 2010, The Nation, Retreat to Subsistence by Peter Canby http://www.thenation.com/article/36330/retreat-subsistence Here is a lengthy and worthwhile article written about the breakdown of NAFTA promises and the pressure on the indigenous Oaxaca farmer to give up small plot farming of native corn, beans and squash (milpas) in favor of supposedly more highly productive hybrid […]