Executive Summary

The story of Mexico’s agriculture crisis is not an easy one to tell.

It is a complex story that involves some of the largest and most powerful nations and corporations in the world –– nations and corporations that have operations spanning the globe, that often do their business with virtual anonymity, that are essentially unaccountable to outside forces, and that usually make decisions based on political and economic grounds without involving local communities, where stability and quality of life are most affected.

It is a still-emerging story that continues to be written on a day-to-day basis, as these nations and corporations decide where their next deal will be made and with whom, which agricultural products will be produced and traded, where these products will be distributed from and to, who will get the work, and who will be out of work.