Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn
>Although NAFTA was heralded by the U.S. government for reducing barriers to trade, as The Counter previously reported, the pact devastated rural economies in Mexico, flooding the market with cheap, government-subsidized U.S. corn and gutting domestic corn prices by nearly 70 percent. This shift led an estimated 2 million farmworkers to abandon the countryside to seek work in big cities or across the border in the United States.<p>>On December 31, 2020, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador signed a decree that could enable Mexican farmers to reclaim their livelihoods within their home country. The order calls for the phase-out by 2024 of two pillars of American agribusiness: glyphosate and genetically engineered (GE) corn<p>The problem that US corn grown using high yielding strains is too cheap, so the solution is to ban growing high yielding strains domestically? I'm not sure how that's going to work.<p>The actual text of the decree is here: <a href="https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5609365&fecha=31/12/2020" rel="nofollow">https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5609365&fecha...</a><p>The google translated version says nothing about banning genetically engineered corn, just banning glyphosate? The second order effect is that nobody buys RR corn seed, since you wouldn't bother spending more for it if you can't then use glyphosate to knock down weeds. But that's only for corn grown in-country. All the media coverage seems to think it's banning corn imports, which I believe would require repealing NAFTA.