Problem
Based on the assigned readings consider the following. Paraphrase your ideas and use citation.
a) What is contract farming, and what are the risks associated with it? What impact does farming have on communities? Offer 2 remedies to mitigate (reduce) the negative impacts of industrialized farming.
b) Describe the working conditions for farm laborers. Identify the structural influences (laws and relationships between farmers and their workers) that have shaped working conditions. How would you describe or evaluate attempts at remedying some of these problems? (Is enough being doing? What's being done? Explain).
Reading:
a) Agribusiness and farmers in Mexico: the importance of contractual relations-ECHÁNOVE AND STEFFEN
b) The community effects of industrialized farming: Social science research and challenges to corporate farming laws- Linda Lobao and Curtis W. Stofferahn.