# Mexico: Front line of the global food war – POLITICO

> POLITICO reports that Mexico has become the main battleground between its push to protect native corn and US efforts to counter the movement against GM food and agrichemicals. President López Obrador has pledged to phase out GM corn and glyphosate by 2024. Mexico is among the world's largest corn importers and buys mostly US GM corn.

- Date: 2021-11-03 · published 2021-11-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region Mexico · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/44040-mexico-front-line-of-the-global-food-war-politico
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Mexico's planned restrictions on GM corn imports put a large share of US corn export demand at risk, which is a longer-term bearish factor for US corn prices.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2017-01-31 | [Politics is foiling Monsanto’s quest to grow GMO corn in Mexico](https://feedsoft.ai/events/72978-politics-is-foiling-monsanto-s-quest-to-grow-gmo-corn-in-mexico.md) | -0.5% | +0.1% |
| CORN | 2019-09-02 | [Mexico’s move toward food self-sufficiency confronts GMOs \| IATP](https://feedsoft.ai/events/57037-mexico-s-move-toward-food-self-sufficiency-confronts-gmos-iatp.md) | -2.8% | +1.5% |
| CORN | 2018-05-16 | [Can Mexico Produce Its Own Food? President López Obrador Thinks So](https://feedsoft.ai/events/65009-can-mexico-produce-its-own-food-president-lopez-obrador-thinks-so.md) | +0.3% | -4.4% |
| CORN | 2020-08-25 | [» Mexico Proposes Gradual Phase Out of Glyphosate](https://feedsoft.ai/events/51585-mexico-proposes-gradual-phase-out-of-glyphosate.md) | +3.0% | +8.9% |
| CORN | 2021-06-11 | [Mexico stalling GMO corn permits ahead of ban, says top farm lobby](https://feedsoft.ai/events/46585-mexico-stalling-gmo-corn-permits-ahead-of-ban-says-top-farm-lobby.md) | -6.1% | -4.6% |

## Sources

- politico.eu: https://www.politico.eu/article/mexico-food-agriculture-climate-change-pesticides-glyphosate-gmo-corn-maize/

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