From Sugar to Blackberries
Restructuring Agro-export Production in Michoacán, Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4501569 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donna L Chollett (University of Minnesota Morris, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 79-92 |
| Publication date | 2009-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x09334158 |
| OpenAlex | W1971743964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 9 |
In recent years, economic crisis in the sugar industry and the closure of an important sugar mill in Michoacán, Mexico, have fostered the entry of transnational agribusinesses that contract with local growers for blackberry production. Land concentration is under way as wealthy growers rent ejido (agrarian-reform) land to grow berries and small-scale growers shift to less capitalized berry production or migrate out of the region. An analysis of the impact of this transition, part of the globalization of the agro-food system, on campesinos, workers, and their communities reveals that a general improvement in the economy has been accompanied by increased inequality, concentration of land ownership, and out-migration, a division of labor by gender that is detrimental to women, and damage to human health and the environment due to increased use of pesticides
Agrarian society · Agribusiness · Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Biology · Business · Division of labour · Economics · Geography · Globalization · Market economy · Production (economics) · Sugar · Sugar production · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Indian History and Philosophy · Plant and soil sciences
Mapping the expansion of berry greenhouses onto Michoacán’s ejido lands, México
The insertion of Mexico into the global value chain of berries
Agrifood field analysis and sociocultural brokerage. Mexico and the United States
Social change and land tenure regimes in Mexico
Green distributive politics
Renegotiating gender and class in the berry fields of Michoacán, Mexico
Networks and Public Policies in the Global South
"Mexico's "Sugar Tax
Donna Chollett, Neoliberalism, social exclusion, and social movements
Postdisaster reciprocity and the development of inequality in personal networks
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |