NDLI: Consumption strategies in Mexican rural households: pursuing food security with quality

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Author	Appendini, Kirsten Quijada, Ma. Guadalupe
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Food quality is an important issue on the global agenda, particularly in high- and middle-income economies, but of little concern in designing Mexico’s food policy. Food policy has focused on quantity and in the case of maize, on satisfying domestic demand by supporting large commercial agriculture and importing from abroad. However, and as argued in this paper, obtaining a food staple (maize-tortilla) of quality is also an important issue for rural households and contributes to motivating continued smallholder production. Based on case studies in the rural district of Atlacomulco, in the state of Mexico, as well as in two regions of the state of Chiapas, this paper analyzes the production and consumption strategies of rural households. We focus on goals of food security and quality and note differential trends among households of varying characteristics and local contexts. We find that the motivation of small-scale producers to grow maize should be supported by Mexico’s food policy.
Starting Page	439
Ending Page	454
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0889048X
Journal	Agriculture and Human Values
Volume Number	33
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15728366
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-06-11
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Maize Food security Quality Rural households Mexico Ethics Agricultural Economics Veterinary Medicine History Evolutionary Biology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Agronomy and Crop Science

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