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. [...]

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 [...]

Gigante Verde (green giant) is going to build a new 1.5 hectare plant in Irapuato. Irapuato, about forty minutes drive from Guanajuato, is pretty much the agricultural capital of central Mexico. General Mills, which owns Gigante Verde, has been investing there since 1983.
Much of it is in frozen vegetables. The region, [...]