Rachel Laudan

Are you planting? That’s a polite question to ask a Mexican campesino in late spring. The answer increasingly, at least in this region, is no. No, said Chuy, the horse died. No, said Emilia, three years out of seven there’s not enough rain and so it’s just not worth it. [...]

Today I took a morning off work to explore. I live in Guanajuato, Mexico which was for hundreds of years one of the richest silver mining towns in the world. Figuring out how such an operation could work in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, without railroads or rivers for transport, a hundred and fifty [...]

So much of food politics swirls around corn at the moment: denunciations of corn as the cause of growing obesity or the poster child for agribusiness; the problems of CM crops; the economics of biofuel; and how American corn politics affects other parts of the world.
And of these other parts of the world, few are [...]