Yolanda Castañeda

Universidad Autonoma Metrpolitana · Sociología

The aim of this article is to use the concept of modernity to analyze and question how the system of patents has sharpened the adverse social and economic impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic since December 2019. The authors review the role played by bio-pharmaceutical companies in the international vaccine market and the intellectual property system...

El artículo se centra en el análisis de la política de bioseguridad instrumentada por el go- bierno mexicano en relación con las fugas, robos y siniestros al transporte, a los que de- nominamos vectores de riesgo, suscitados durante el movimiento transfronterizo del maíz genéticamente modificado (GM). Sostenemos la hipótesis de que el grano GM impo...

The objective of this article is to analyze the role of the state in regulating the freeing of the environment of trans-genetic crops in Mexico’s agricultural sector since the Law on Biosecurity of Genetically Modified Organisms was passed. It delves into the role of peasant, indigenous, and non-governmental organizations as movements that have gon...

Este artículo tiene como objetivo principal analizar, desde una perspectiva socio-técnica, procesos de construcción de agendas de investigación relativas a la resolución de problemáticas de la producción alimentaria en América latina. El recorte analítico aborda dos casos de estudio: el desarrollo de variedades transgénicas resistentes al virus de...

Its climate makes the state of Jalisco an outstanding maize producer; it is a good producer of grain corn and, above all, seed. This gives the state's farmers and national seed producers an advantage, but also creates conflicts because the former are not getting a fair price for their product and they have high production costs, while the latter ha...

Cultivating maize is fundamental for Puebla producers because it is part of their economy, social relations, and culture. Internationally, over the last two decades, we have seen a new proposal for technological innovation emerge: genetically-modified crops, whose effects cannot be known a priori since research into their potential impact has not y...

La producción de biocombustibles forma parte de una estrategia competitiva dentro del mercado agrícola internacional. Estados Unidos busca terminar con su dependencia de las importaciones petroleras desarrollando energías alternativas. La expansión de la producción de etanol derivado del maíz -en Estados Unidos, principalmente- ha incrementado la d...

In Mexico, a collaboration programme of public and private research is developing virus resistant transgenic potatoes, aiming explicitly at small-scale farmers. This claim is backed by economic models, but interviews with the farmers concerned show that they are not likely to benefit from the new varieties.