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dc.contributor.authorKeleman, Alder*
dc.contributor.authorRañó, Hugo García*
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-21T10:09:50Zen
dc.date.available2013-02-21T10:09:50Zen
dc.date.issued2011-06-11en
dc.identifier.issn0961-4524en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09614524.2011.562487en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10546/270040en
dc.descriptionThis article examines the case of the Mexican ‘tortilla crisis’ of 2007. Drawing on reviews of literature and the media, key-informant interviews, and secondary databases, the authors explore the response of the Mexican maize–tortilla chain to a price shock. Price increases should theoretically be passed on to the consumer as a progressively less significant percentage of the overall price of value-added food products. However, in Mexico, price increases were magnified along the maize–tortilla production chain. This was due largely to asymmetries among segments of the chain, which conditioned the responses of industrial-scale corporations and small-scale family businesses. This case study suggests that, in order to understand the impacts of price-shocks on poor consumers, more detailed, country-level analyses of market chains and price-transmission structures are needed.<p>This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p>en
dc.format.extent15en
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.publisherOxfam GBen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.urlhttp://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/the-mexican-tortilla-crisis-of-2007-the-impacts-of-grain-price-increases-on-foo-270040
dc.subjectFood and livelihoods
dc.titleThe Mexican tortilla crisis of 2007: the impacts of grain-price increases on food-production chainsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.eissn1364-9213en
dc.identifier.journalDevelopment in Practiceen
oxfam.signoff.statusFor public use – can be shared outside Oxfamen
oxfam.subject.countryMexicoen
oxfam.subject.keywordAgriculture
oxfam.subject.keywordFood prices
oxfam.subject.keywordMarkets
oxfam.subject.keywordDevelopment in Practice Journal
oxfam.subject.keywordDiP
prism.issuenameGlobal food-price shocks and poor people: themes and case studiesen
prism.number4-5en
prism.volume21en


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