Selling maize in Mexico: The persistence of peasant farming in an era of global markets

Development and Change

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 133-155

  Eakin, Hallie ^a   Perales, Hugo ^b   Appendini, Kirsten ^c   Sweeney, Stuart ^d,e  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^c EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d Institute for Social Behavioral and Economic Research ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; FREE TRADE; MAIZE; PEASANT AGRICULTURE; SMALLHOLDER; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84891940391     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12074     Document Type: Article

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