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About maize, we must continue talking

greta rico

Dec 1, 2023

Location: Mexico

Summary

Today maize faces some threats: real estate development that seeks to evict it, an industry that prioritizes carcinogenic chemicals and GMOs over agroecological practices, and climate change, with the natural phenomena that it implies: droughts, hailstorms, pests, heat waves, cyclones and hurricanes.

Today maize faces some threats: real estate development that seeks to evict it, an industry that prioritizes carcinogenic chemicals and GMOs over agroecological practices, and climate change, with the natural phenomena that it implies: droughts, hailstorms, pests, heat waves, cyclones and hurricanes.

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Hoy el maíz enfrenta algunas amenazas: un desarrollo inmobiliario que busca desalojarlo, una industria que prioriza químicos cancerígenos y transgénicos sobre las prácticas agroecológicas, y el cambio climático, con los fenómenos naturales que implica: sequías, granizadas, plagas, olas de calor, ciclones y huracanes.

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