" Further away from the border, and further away from wealth, small farms, which make up 85 percent of farmers in Mexico,6 have been faring badly.7 Indeed, for the majority of poor farmers, NAFTA hit hard. And that’s because the crop they grew was treated with a mixture of contempt, ignorance and incompetence during the negotiations. Responsible for 60 per cent of the land cultivated in Mexico at the time the treaty was concluded, a source of livelihood for three million producers, and 8 per cent of the population, that crop was corn. "

― Raj Patel , Stuffed And Starved: Markets, Power And The Hidden Battle For The World Food System