Sowing the seeds for fairer trade

From: Evening News - Scotland | Date: April 12, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

IMAGINE scratching a living as a subsistence farmer, producing enough to eat and a little more to sell. Imagine then having your income wiped out by cheap subsidised foreign imports.

That is what happened to Jose, who grows maize on a smallholding near the town of Venustiano Carranza, in Chiapas, Mexico's poorest region, when in 1994 Mexico joined the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Since then Mexico has been flooded with imports of subsidised maize grown by US farmers.

About a quarter of all the maize consumed in Mexico now comes from the US, and this is set to increase. ...

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