Activist Gustavo Esteva wrote about short-sighted Mexican agricultural policy and its effect on the United States China and Mexico both seem to have created dislocation problems for themselves with peasant-slighting policies. These difficulties result from misapplying urbanized thinking to landscapes where they don’t yet belong. Mexican activist Gustavo Esteva had this to say yesterday about [...]
Categories: Agriculture,Economy
Tagged: agricultural policy, agro-plutocrats, China, gustavo Esteva, Mexico, Mexico goes back to the land, peasants, subsidies, sustainable
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- 15 February 2011 – 08:14
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- By BrainiYak
“Compare and contrast” questions often highlight errors in thinking and policy Hidden and unanalyzed assumptions cause policy errors that kill people. (I have written more about this here.) Good lawyers often expose sloppy thinking by comparing and contrasting similar situations that have, nevertheless, been treated completely differently in practice. Before embarking on policy-making, one should ask [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Afghanistan, compare and contrast, Doug Moench, drug cartel, Mexico, terrorist, training camps, violence, war
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- 1 July 2010 – 07:38
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- By BrainiYak