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Mexico’s Corn Defenders Honored with Environmental Prize

Food Tank

They know maize is different.” The foundation selected the Demanda Colectiva to join such esteemed company, according to president and founder Randall Tolpinrud, for its “courage and wisdom to resist the ravages of industrial agriculture that degrades the land, destroys biodiversity and encourages increased carbon emissions.”

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The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Can they make laws to safeguard domestic agriculture, public health, the environment, and the genetic integrity of the national diet? The closest analogues—wheat in the countries of Europe, rice across Asia—pale beside the cultural and dietary importance of maize in the land where it was first domesticated.

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