Abstract
The Mexican food system was dramatically affected by the periodic crises with high inflation and dangerous devaluations of the peso against the dollar. The Mexican Government promoted a popular system of basic products in rural and urban areas, to make at least the most basic goods available even in the most remote areas. They also regularly published the official prices of basic foods to reduce speculation and regional and local hoarding. The South East is a region far from Mexico City and, with the oil boom in the early 1980s, Tabasco in particular required an increasing, safe supply of both basic and luxury goods. The decentralisation of food collection to rural storage and the concession of affiliated shops with controlled prices reduced the transportation time and costs of food supply. These processes guaranteed fresh vegetables and fruit at local prices. The governmental actions reduced also the number of intermediaries, food speculation and the hoarding of basic food and improved food security of the marginal people, whenever local interests boycotted the official efforts.
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This chapter is a summary of a book by U. Oswald Spring (1986). El impacto de Diconsa y alternativas de abasto para los grupos marginales rurales y urbanos en el sureste [The impact of Diconsa and supply alternatives for marginal rural and urban people in the south east], Mexico , D.F., UAM-X, pp. 126. This research was done for Distribuidoras Conasupo, S. A. de C. V (Diconsa ) [System of Distribution of the National Company of Popular Subsistence : Consupo: Compañía Nacional de Subsistencias Populares] in 1985/86, when the crisis was acute and the inflation in Mexico very high.
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Ejidatarios are peasants who were assigned small plots of land by the land reform as a result of the demands during the Mexican Revolution . This land was given collectively to an ejido , and until 1992 this land could not be sold, rented or seized. The chief decision-making body is the General Assembly, generally composed of male peasants, which has discriminated against peasant women, who often lose their land rights when their husband dies and the Assembly assigns the land to another man.
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In March 2017, the general annual inflation was 5.35 per cent and the National Consumer Price Index (INPC in Spanish) revealed that in 63.03 per cent of cases the sub-index was responsible for the increase. This sub-index includes the inflation of food , processed food , other goods , education , dwelling and other services (INEGI 2017).
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Oswald Spring, Ú. (2019). Open Dissipative System of Popular Markets in Tabasco. In: Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94712-9_17
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