Tuesday, June 1, 2010

AUDIO-Feet on the ground Mexican peasant women are the worst affected by agribusiness model http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/Feet-on-the-ground

As it happens in most of the countries, the consolidation of the agribusiness model in the Mexican rural areas has led to an increasing migration to the big urban centers.Tired of the lack of credit and land grabbing, usually the men of the family or elder brothers are the first ones to leave the land and look for new sources of income.“The women are left in charge of our families and we keep working in our small plots of land. We are the worst affected by the agribusiness model”

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