Mexico's Green Revolution

In this course, we take a critical look at Mexican food production, processing, and consumption through a
political ecology approach that includes an examination of important historical developments that provide
context to more contemporary processes. These include Mexico's Green Revolution; the impact of
globalization and new conceptualizations of food; the North American Free Trade Agreement; and migration in
and out of Mexico.
, the project should be geared to explain the connections between Mexican food and identity, survival, status,
community, heritage, migration, power, and/or ecology in Greater Mexico. What do I mean by “Greater
Mexico”? Tome, at least culturally, Greater Mexico includes Tucson. Greater Mexico spans the distance
between Oaxaca and the borderlands.
The paper will be graded content and relevance of the topic for the class, contribution to understanding a
specific issue related to food in Greater Mexico. This entails that data and interpretation will be grounded in
theoretical orientation and explanation of the research process.