Food Policy in Mexico: The Search for Self-Sufficiency

James Austin

Published by Cornell University Press 1987

Food Policy in Mexico

The Search for Self-Sufficiency

James Austin
Edited by: Gustavo Esteva

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745423

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About this book

Food self-sufficiency is high among the priorities of most Third World countries, yet there are relatively few detailed studies dealing with their attempts to reach this goal. A team of twenty experts—academics, policymakers, advisers, and managers—here address key issues underlying self-sufficiency strategies through an examination of the Sistema Alimentario Mexicano (SAM, Mexican Food System), a program designed to coordinate food production with distribution and consumption.

Author / Editor information

James Austin is Professor of Business and Agriculture, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University. Gustavo Esteva is Director of COPIDER, a nonprofit rural development organization in Mexico.

Reviews

Billie D. DeWalt, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky:

The authors give us a real sense of the difficulties of transforming bureaucracies, mobilizing political support, and reorienting producer decisions, as well as all the other elements that must be controlled to make a program like SAM work.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. The Path of Exploration James E. Austin and Gustavo Esteva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
PART II: STRATEGY
2. Food Needs and Capacities: Four Centuries of Conflict Gustavo Esteva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. The Conception of SAM Mario Montanari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
PART III: IMPLEMENTATION
4. State-Owned Enterprises: Food Policy Implementers James E. Austin and Jonathan Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
5. Channeling Credit to the Countryside Raul Pessah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
6. SAM and Seeds David Barkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
7. Generating and Disseminating Technology Gustavo Viniegra Gonzalez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
8. The Peasant Initiative Rodrigo A. Medellin E. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
9. Feeding Mexico City Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
10. SAM and the Mexican Private Sector Carlos Guillermo Sequeira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
PART IV: IMPACT
11. SAM's Cost and Impact on Production Armando Andrade and Nicole Blanc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
12. SAM's Influence on Food Consumption and Nutrition Jacobo Schatan W. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
13. SAM, Energy, and Structural Change in the Agricultural Sector C. Peter Timmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
14. SAM's Impact on Income Distribution Bill Gibson, Nora Lustig and Lance Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
PART V: THE FUTURE
15. SAM's Successor: PRONAL Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, Maria de los Angeles Moreno and Clara Jusidman de Bialotovsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
16. Final Reflections James E. Austin and Gustavo Esteva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 400
Keywords: Political Science & Political History; Agriculture

eBook

Published: May 15, 2019
ISBN: 9781501745423