Reconstructing the Maize Market in Rural Mexico
Reconstructing the Maize Market in Rural Mexico
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重建墨西哥农村地区的玉米市场
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2014
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K. Appendini
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K. Appendini
墨西哥的玉米市场从一个沿着整个玉米-玉米粉圆饼链的严重国家干预的市场过渡到今天的“自由市场”是一个漫长而复杂的过程。20多年来，玉米生产在玉米农业的地理位置和种植玉米的农民类型方面都发生了根本性的变化。在本文中，我认为，国内玉米供应的结构调整是由于政策决定，以支持私人代理人在玉米市场，因此，国家并没有退出其参与，而是在建设“自由”玉米市场，其结果是，国内市场供应集中在相对少数代理人和相对少数地区的手中，发挥了关键作用。我讨论了这些政策的背景，并分析了支持玉米商业化的国家机构ASERCA（Apoyos y Servicios a la Comercializacion Agrobacteria）实施的方案。
The transition in Mexico from a maize market once characterized by heavy state intervention along the entire maize–tortilla chain to the ‘free market’ of today has been a long and complex process. Over two decades, the production of maize has seen a radical transition both in the geographical location of maize agriculture and the type of farmers growing maize. In this paper, I argue that the restructuring of the domestic maize supply is due to policy decisions to support private agents in the maize market; hence the state did not withdraw its involvement but, rather, has had a key role in the construction of the ‘free’ maize market, with the result that domestic supply for the market is concentrated in the hands of relatively few agents and in relatively few regions. I discuss the background to these policies and analyse the programmes implemented by the state agency ASERCA (Apoyos y Servicios a la Comercializacion Agropecuaria) that support the commercialization of maize.