The Mexico City milk supply system: Structure, function, and sustainability

Hermenegildo Losada, Richard Bennett, José Cortés, Jorge Vieyra and Ramon Soriano

Agriculture and Human Values, 2001, vol. 18, issue 3, 305-317

Abstract: This paper examines the presentsupply of milk to the urban inhabitant ofMexico City, paying particular attention tocurrent themes of market liberalization,sustainable development, and democratization.This is facilitated by an infrastructure withinand without the metropolitan zone and coexistswith a large importation of milk from theinternational market, much being sold at lowprices to low income groups. Reduced statequality regulation has enabled the use of theseimports in industrialized milk products. Giventhe integration of international and nationalsources in milk supply, simply increasingMexican production will not reduce imports, andthe NAFTA trade pact is unlikely to address theresource exploitation problems faced bynational production. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001

Keywords: Latin America; Mexico; Milk supply; Megacities; Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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