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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1998Mexico
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1998Mexico
Four environments with contrasting potential for agricultural productivity and infrastructure development were identified in Guanajuato State, Mexico, to test hypotheses about the relationship of maize biological diversity to the region's potential for agricultural productivity and infrastructure development. Samples of all types of maize grown by a random sample of farmers were collected from each environment. The maize samples were classified by race, racial mixture or type of "creolized" or improved variety.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1998Mexico
<p>This study is based on research carried out during several periods from mid 1991 to mid 1995 in the ejido La Canoa in Jalisco, western Mexico, and in several government agencies. The study focuses in particular on the period between the 1930s and 1992 when the Mexican agrarian law was fundamentally changed.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1998Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean
Mexican rural reform has questioned the role of the peasantry and private national producers in agriculture. The reform followed a neoliberal paradigm for incorporating the nation into the global village. As part of a government strategy, land reform in Mexico aims to change entrepreneurial and land tenure patterns in rural areas into an individual, private, large-scale, and capitalist productive structure, and the land market is vital in allowing the land transfers needed to change the land tenure pattern.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1998Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Mexico
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1998Mexico, Caribbean, Central America, South America
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 1998Mexico, Gambia, Tanzania, Philippines, Central America, South America, Southern Asia, Africa
Proceedings of the workshop which focused particularly on gender analysis of rights to land and water, the implications of privatization and water markets for women's access to resources, how women (as well as men) can participate fully in collective action projects and the relation between problems like water scarcity and pollution, multiple uses of water in irrigation systems and gender.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 1998Mexico
Land titles can increase agricultural productivity by increasing access to collateralized credit. However, increased credit use depends on the assumption that farmers face asset-based credit rationing. This assumption is tested using data from Mexico's voluntary land titling program. The results do not support the existence of widespread credit rationing.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1998Mexico
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