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Los principales temas tratados en esta publicacion incluyen el papel de la agricultura en el desarrollo economico; los objetivos y los instrumentos de la politica agricola; las vinculaciones entre politica macroeconomica y politicas sectoriales; las politicas relacionadas con los precios agricolas; el papel de los gobiernos en el desarrollo agricola; los aspectos de genero; las politicas de lucha contra la pobreza; las politicas de tenencia de la tierra y de ordenacion de aguas; las estrategias de desarrollo agricola, y asuntos relativos al desarrollo rural. Esta publicacion podra ser util como material para cursos academicos, programas de capacitacion y actividades de autocapacitacion en desarrollo economico y agricola; podra servir para el diseno de politicas economicas y agricolas y de gestion de recursos naturales, y para facilitar la comprension de diversos otros temas agricolas especializados. Podra servir tambien como material de consulta para los responsables de la adopcion de politicas agricolas y rurales, y para los profesionales e investigadores interesados en los temas mencionados."
Mexico in Transition provides a wide-ranging, empirical and up-to-date survey of the multiple impacts neoliberal policies have had in practice in Mexico over twenty years, and the specific impacts of the NAFTA Agreement. The volume covers a wide terrain, including the effects of globalization on peasants; the impact of neoliberalism on wages, trade unions, and specifically women workers; the emergence of new social movements El Barzón and the Zapatistas (EZLN); how the environment, especially biodiversity, has become a target for colonization by transnational corporations; the political issue of migration to the United States; and the complicated intersections of economic and political liberalization. Mexico in Transition provides rich concrete evidence of what happens to the different sectors of an economy, its people, and natural resources, as the profound change of direction that neoliberal policy represents takes hold. It also describes and explains the diverse forms of resistance and challenge that different civil-society groups of those affected are now offering to a model the downsides of which are becoming increasingly manifest.
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This important collection explores how Mexico’s tumultuous past informs its uncertain present and future. Cycles of crisis and reform, of conflict and change, have marked Mexico’s modern history. The final decades of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries each brought efforts to integrate Mexico into globalizing economies, pressures on the country’s diverse peoples, and attempts at reform. The crises of the late eighteenth century and the late nineteenth led to revolutionary mobilizations and violent regime changes. The wars for independence that began in 1810 triggered conflicts that endured for decades; the national revolution that began in 1910 shaped Mexico for most of...