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The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

Food Environment and Reporting Network

If the biotech companies defeat maize in its center of origin, it will embolden them to do the same in other centers of origin,” said Tania Monserrat Téllez, an organizer with Sin Maiz, No Hay Pais (Without Corn, There Is No Nation), a coalition of groups in Mexico supporting the ban. Photo by Omar Torres/AFP via Getty Images.

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A deadly passage

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Her mothers days were filled with caring for children, hand-milling maize, and tending their small garden. Aracely Marroqun Coronado, 21 On the farm where Aracely grew up, near the town of Comitancillo in Guatemalas western highlands, the maize is so tall in July that it swallows her familys house whole.

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