IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/earnsa/7990.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Liberalizacion y reformas al agro: lecciones de Mexico

Author

Listed:
  • Naude, Antonio Yunez

Abstract

Este artículo examina los Acuerdos de la liberalización del mercado de Norteamérica (NAFTA) con el objeto de analizar el impacto sobre la agricultura y la economía rural en México, y evaluar las políticas introducidas por México para acompañar el proceso. La primera conclusión es que, el NAFTA ha cubierto las predicciones e intensificado las tendencias pre-NAFTA en la agricultura mexicana. La segunda es que la liberalización del mercado promueve y facilita la difícil transición hacia una economía más abierta, y simultáneamente las políticas sectoriales que promueven un desarrollo rural integrado. La experiencia mexicana, sin embargo, muestra que la visión polarizada que presentan varios agentes políticos con respecto a la elección de políticas públicas apropiadas hace complicado reunir estos requisitos. El artículo concluye refiriéndose al debate sobre la reconversión productiva y las medidas de mejora versus las medidas basadas en las ayudas, un tema importante en los últimos años en México, y uno de los que puede ser extrapolable a otros países de Latinoamérica con acuerdos de liberalización de mercado nuevos o pendientes. Palabras clave: efectos de los acuerdos de liberalización, México, políticas públicas. Liberalization and reform of the agricultural sector: lessons from Mexico This article examines the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in order to analyse its impact on agriculture and the rural economy in Mexico, and to evaluate the policies introduced by Mexico to accompany the trade liberalization process. The first conclusion is that, far from bringing about any unexpected change, the NAFTA has fulfilled predictions and intensified pre-NAFTA trends in Mexican agriculture. The second is that trade liberalization calls for a coherent public policy to promote growth and ease the difficult transition towards a more open economy, and concurrent sectoral policies to promote integrated rural development. The Mexican experience, however, shows that the polarized views taken by the various political agents with regard to the choice of suitable public policies make it difficult to meet these requirements. The article concludes by referring to the debate over productive re-conversion and improvement measures versus aid-based measures, a prominent issue in Mexico in recent years, and one that can be extrapolated to many other Latin American countries with new or pending free trade agreements.

Suggested Citation

  • Naude, Antonio Yunez, 2006. "Liberalizacion y reformas al agro: lecciones de Mexico," Economia Agraria y Recursos Naturales, Spanish Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 6(12), pages 1-21.
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:earnsa:7990
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.7990
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/7990/files/06120047.pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.7990?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sofia Mardero & Birgit Schmook & Jorge Omar López-Martínez & Lizette Cicero & Claudia Radel & Zachary Christman, 2018. "The Uneven Influence of Climate Trends and Agricultural Policies on Maize Production in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico," Land, MDPI, vol. 7(3), pages 1-20, June.
    2. Bellon, Mauricio R. & Hellin, Jon, 2011. "Planting Hybrids, Keeping Landraces: Agricultural Modernization and Tradition Among Small-Scale Maize Farmers in Chiapas, Mexico," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 39(8), pages 1434-1443, August.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    International Relations/Trade;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:earnsa:7990. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aeeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.