# Bold farm plans in Mexico offer a ray of hope in 2019 | IATP

> Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took office December 1, 2018, is pursuing an agriculture plan aimed at self-sufficiency in basic grains and support for family farmers. Farmers' organizations have endorsed a 21st-century Plan de Ayala referencing land reform. The article is an opinion piece on these plans.

- Date: 2019-01-15 · published 2019-01-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region Mexico · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/61059-bold-farm-plans-in-mexico-offer-a-ray-of-hope-in-2019-iatp
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

A push for grain self-sufficiency in Mexico could eventually reduce Mexican corn imports from the US, a long-term bearish factor for US corn exports, though the article gives no near-term price mechanism.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2021-01-26 | [Mexico plans to phase out GMO corn by 2024 - Texas Farm Bureau](https://feedsoft.ai/events/49130-mexico-plans-to-phase-out-gmo-corn-by-2024-texas-farm-bureau.md) | +5.1% | +1.5% |
| CORN | 2024-10-15 | [Mexico’s President Reaffirms Ban on Planting & Consumption of GMO White Corn - Pro Farmer](https://feedsoft.ai/events/27821-mexico-s-president-reaffirms-ban-on-planting-and-consumption-of-gmo-white-corn.md) | -0.1% | +2.6% |
| CORN | 2024-05-17 | [Key Provisions in House Farm Bill - Pro Farmer](https://feedsoft.ai/events/30234-key-provisions-in-house-farm-bill-pro-farmer.md) | +1.2% | +6.0% |
| 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% |
| CORN | 2021-01-05 | [Mexico bans GMO corn, plans to phase out imports \| Feed Strategy](https://feedsoft.ai/events/49126-mexico-bans-gmo-corn-plans-to-phase-out-imports-feed-strategy.md) | +3.1% | +14.6% |

## Sources

- iatp.org: https://www.iatp.org/blog/201903/bold-farm-plans-mexico-offer-ray-hope-2019

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