Episode 177: Part Two: Mexico Takes on GMO Dogma
The Checkout presents part two of an interview with Timothy Wise on the Mexican resistance to U.S.-grown GMO corn. Mexico’s case rests on science and is a huge challenge to GMO dogma.
The Mexican response: https://www.iatp.org/gm-corn-trade-dispute-continues-formal-submission-mexico#:~:text=A%202023%20Mexican%20decree%20called,industrial%20use%20and%20animal%20feed.
https://www.iatp.org/us-must-respect-indigenous-rights-mexico-gm-corn-case
Timothy A. Wise is a senior advisor at IATP, where his work focuses on agribusiness, family farmers and the future of food, based on his recent book, Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food (The New Press). Tim has a long history of collaboration with IATP on issues including agricultural dumping, U.S. agricultural subsidies and policies, responses to the 2007-8 global food crisis, the WTO and Mexico under NAFTA. He was a senior advisor with the Small Planet Institute, where he directed the Land and Food Rights Program from 2016-2020. He is also a senior research fellow at Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute, where he founded and directed its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. He previously served as executive director of the U.S.-based aid agency Grassroots International. He is the author of Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico, in addition to Eating Tomorrow. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://www.iatp.org/about/staff/timothy-wise
Author Page: https://www.timothyawise.com/
Twitter: @TimothyAWise
Instagram: @TimothyAWise
Email: tim.wise[at]tufts.edu
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