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Avocados are a ‘green gold’ export for Mexico, but growing them is harming forests and waters
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Avocados are a ‘green gold’ export for Mexico, but growing them is harming forests and waters

Viridiana Hernández Fernández
The Conversation
05/29/2024
DOI: 10.64628/AAI.ufmjx6ucp
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Abstract

Avocados are marketed as a superfood, but growing them for an expanding world market has turned a rural Mexican state into an unsustainable monoculture.
Agriculture Exports Mexico Organized Crime Trade Crime Deforestation Superfoods Monoculture Water shortage North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Produce

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