Food Policy in Mexico : The Search for Self-Sufficiency.

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FOOD POLICY IN MEXICO The Search for Self-Sufficiency
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Contents
Preface
PART I INTRODUCTION
1. The Path of Exploration
The Case of Mexico
The Analytic Map
PART II STRATEGY
2. Food Needs and Capacities: Four Centuries of Conflict
In the Beginning There Was Malnutrition
The Colonial Cycle
Independence Is Pending
Willingly or Unwillingly
Liberalism Learns Social Revolution
Attempting Another Alternative
Hunger on an Industrial Scale
Stagnation
Historical Lessons
Cooking up SAM
Bibliography
3. The Conception of SAM
The Food Strategy Approach
The Basic Outline of the Strategy
Some Reflections on the Introduction of SAM
PART III IMPLEMENTATION
4. State-Owned Enterprises: Food Policy Implementers
SOEs in the Food Sector: Roles and Prevalence
SOEs and SAM: The Implementation Experience
SOE Responses
Patterns of SOE Responses
Conclusions and Implications for Policy Implementation
Bibliography
5. Channeling Credit to the Countryside
Historical Backdrop
Structural and Functional Changes
Dynamics and Structure of Credits Granted
Conclusions and Perspectives
6. SAM and Seeds
A Historical Overview
Changes Induced by SAM in the Seed Industry
Actors in the Seed-Producing Industry
Conclusions
7. Generating and Disseminating Technology
Production of Basic Grains
Integration of Agriculture and Livestock
General Discussion of the Case Studies
Bibliography
8. The Peasant Initiative
Strategic Propositions
The Peasant Barley Producers and Other Actors
The First Struggles and the First Conclusions
Peasant Barley Producers and SAM
The Peasant Movement in Mexico
Final Conclusions
9. Feeding Mexico City
Traditional Pattern of Commercial Control over Small Producers.

Secondary Urban Intermediaries
The Position of Small Retail Merchants in Low-Income Neighborhoods
Elements of Diversification in a Traditional Oligopolistic Strategy
The Role of the State in the Food System of Mexico City
Policy Implications
10. SAM and the Mexican Private Sector
Methodology
Survey Results
Summary
Some Afterthoughts
PART IV IMPACT
11. SAM's Cost and Impact on Production
Changes in Production Levels
Changes in Crop Structure
Impact by Type of Producer
The Importance of Weather Changes
SAM and Its Explicit Goals
SAM's Food-Production Costs
Incremental Costs and Results of SAM
Conclusions
12. SAM's Influence on Food Consumption and Nutrition
Food and Nutrition during the 1970s
SAM's Nutritional Objectives
The Instruments
Conclusions
Bibliography
13. SAM, Energy, and Structural Change in the Agricultural Sector
The Heuristic Model
Specifying the Relationship between Energy Prices and the Agricultural Sector
Regression Results
Simulating the Impact of Oil Price Changes on Structural Change
The Role of Policy in Determining Agricultural GDP
Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography
14. SAM's Impact on Income Distribution
The Model
Results of the Simulations
Conclusions
Appendix: Model Specification
Bibliography
PART V THE FUTURE
15. SAM's Successor: PRONAL
The National Food Program, 1983-1988
Introduction
Official Summary Description of PRONAL
Strategic Thrusts of the New Policy
Problems of Defining and Operating the New Food Policy in Mexico
16. Final Reflections
Research Questions Revisited
PRONAL: SAM Reincarnated?
PRONADRI: A New Path toward Implementation
Lessons from the Mexican Experience
Looking Forward
Glossary
Index.