This book analyses the importance of maize worldwide and the special importance for Mexico as a centre of origin and … Mexico as COD of maize. This book illustrates the process of economic liberalization in Mexico from the 1980’s until the … imports of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s). It also analyses the impact that GM maize imports from the USA may have in …

Mexico, indicating large de facto incentives to maintain traditional maize there. -- Shadow prices ; non-market values … may bear little relationship with market prices. We econometrically estimate shadow prices of maize using data from a … nationally representative survey of rural households in Mexico. Shadow prices are significantly higher than the market price for …