Briefs About Rural Development in the United States and Views from California (full document)
By: JorgeAndrésForero-González, Fulbright Humphrey Fellow, University of California Davis,2018-2019. & Ricardo Amon, California Institute for Food and Agricultural Research, Department to Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis.
Initial questions.
While in Colombia it is not rare to wonder about the development of rural politics in the United States. In the memory of the Andean peasantry, as in the 1970’s, with the opening of international agricultural markets, Colombia subordinated the national production of wheat to American flour. Resulting from green revolution productivity achievements in the northern country. Following neoliberalism principles since the 1990’s, the Colombian peasantry and their local economies, were confronted with economic globalization. In 2012, the Free Trade Agreement between Colombia and the United States was consolidated, in retrospect is recognized as favorable in the exchange of trade for US agricultural products. Read more