DISCUSSION - Agricultural Policy Reform and Rural Livelihoods in Central Mexico
研究了1988年以来墨西哥农业政策改革对农村生计的影响，发现农村收入分配不均，半数家庭贫困，国际和国内因素比具体农业政策影响更大，农民家庭虽适应但付出了代价。
This contribution examines the impact of profound changes to agricultural policy implemented since 1988 on the livelihoods of Mexico's rural population. Detailed studies in four villages show that rural incomes are very unevenly distributed within communities leaving half of households in poverty. During the last decade key factors affecting village economies have been international and national, rather than specific changes to farm policy. Most changes have been to the detriment of the communities studied, but peasant households have adapted and survived, at a price. If the worst fears about the consequences of economic liberalisation have not been realised, neither have the hopes. Depressed markets for basic goods and services have limited the growth of the rural economy. Private investment and provision of services have not been stimulated.