GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Offal, Open-Pit Mining, Gypsum

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne M C Godlewska

Document Summary

Current world issues: nafta, what is happening in place. And according to the trickle down theory, e will all have befitted from that. But the benefits have been largely to business and the costs have been to everyday life: happening in mexico. Canada"s distinctive agriculture: crucial for survival, 2006, 229,373 farms in canada, 2001, 246,923, 40, mostly producing field crops production. Nafta also opened mexico to imports of us-subsidized cheap corn from the us. Us industries: bill a year in government payouts and subsides for. 3 million mexican corn products driven out of business. Corn prices actually go up in mexico because mexico is not allowed to manage corn prices. Meanwhile social misery in mexico leads to floods of mexican. Which keeps us fruit and vegetable producers profitable and in labourers to the us business: 70% of california"s agricultural workforce foreign born by 2009, and 50% of those were illegal, happening in us.