7th Milpa Festival: Indigenous Communities Resist
Three months before the 20th anniversary of NAFTA, I found myself in an old school bus traveling through the Sierra Juarez in Oaxaca,...
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Oct 23, 20133 min
Groups of Small-Scale Farmers Reject “Oaxaca’s Program for Self-Sustaining Agriculture”
The program endangers small-scale agriculture and the biodiversity of corn. It also harms the environment and people’s health. We call on...
May 24, 20135 min
Monsanto and GMOs: Worldwide Resistance
Monsanto is infamous throughout the world and Mexico is no exception. Here in corn’s birthplace, Monsanto is increasingly expanding its...
May 24, 201316 min
Pre-Trial Hearing Judgement : People’s Permanent Tribunal Regarding Corn
Despite everything that successive governments have done to dismantle the Constitution of Mexico, its social and political commitments,...
Mar 7, 20124 min
Defending Corn and Culture in Rural Oaxaca
By Carlin Christy, WfP Mexico Team Corn is sacred in Mexico. Indigenous groups, of which there are 16 in Oaxaca, consider corn to be a...
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