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Richard Snyder's well-crafted study substantiates what most political scientists suspected all along: that neoliberal reforms lead to new institutions of market governance, rather than to unregulated markets. Snyder sheds light on this understudied topic by examining the reregulation of the coffee sector by four state governments after the Mexican government dismantled the Instituto Mexicano del Café (INMECAFE), the state-owned enterprise that dominated the coffee industry during the 1970s and 1980s. By the late 1980s, when deregulation began, INMECAFE was providing production supports, price controls, and government-managed marketing channels for nearly 200 thousand small coffee producers. Most of these producers were located among the poorest states in southern Mexico.

The use of native plants in food is a traditional practice that, in many territories, has been abandoned or modified. The Convention on Biological Diversity establishes the protection of customary use of biological resources, in accordance with traditional cultural practices (art. 10 CBD). This paper describes and analyzes the traditional food practices with native plants in two localities of Entre Ríos: Las Cuevas and Nogoyá. The cultural changes that have occurred in recent decades in these localities show an increase in urbanization coupled with internal migration, changes in land use, lack of subjective appropriation of traditional knowledge and a limitation of the food repertoire. Based on the analysis of information obtained from interviews and workshops, we describe the food practices that incorporated native plants and that are no longer maintained, either due to cultural changes or to the difficulty of accessing these biological resources. The legislation is also examined to identify the absence of the category of native or wild plants in our legal system. Since this knowledge has not been codified for academic transmission, this prevents its inclusion in formal education. ; La utilización de plantas nativas en la alimentación es una práctica tradicional que, en muchos territorios, se ha abandonado o modificado. El Convenio sobre Diversidad Biológica establece la protección del uso consuetudinario de los recursos biológicos, de conformidad con las prácticas culturales tradicionales (art. 10 CDB). En este trabajo se describen y analizan aquellas prácticas tradicionales alimentarias con plantas nativas en dos localidades de Entre Ríos: Las Cuevas y Nogoyá. Los cambios culturales producidos en las últimas décadas en las localidades investigadas dan cuenta de un aumento de la urbanización unida a una migración interna, cambios en el uso del suelo, ausencia de apropiación subjetiva de saberes tradicionales y una limitación del repertorio alimentario. A partir del análisis de la información obtenida de ...