From public health epidemics to migration, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has transformed Mexico’s food system–and our own.
Alyshia Gálvez is a cultural and medical anthropologist and professor of Food Studies and Anthropology at the New School. She is the author of several award-winning books. Her latest, “Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies and the Destruction of Mexico” (UC Press, 2018), focuses on changing food policies, systems and practices in Mexico and Mexican communities in the United States, including impacts from trade and economic policy and their public health implications.