Trade and Agriculture with Guest David Ervin

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Chapter 7:

Agriculture is one of the most traded commodities but also some of the oldest. There have long been issues in this trade and these issues have multiplied under trade agreements such as NAFTA. Three agricultural trade issues between the United States and Mexico illustrate the new gamut of problems: corn, avocados and mesquite wood. Many of them endure up to today. The guest is David Ervin, the Director of Policy Studies Program at the Henry A. Wallace Institute who discusses some of the key issues under discussion in trade talks aimed at agriculture. The case looks at the issues of corn and its importance in ecological and trade terms, especially with respect to the modification of its genes.

 

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