How Do I Get This Article? Athens Login Access Restricted This article is available through Project MUSE, an electronic journals collection made available to subscribing libraries NOTE: Please do NOT contact Project MUSE for a login and password. See How Do I Get This Article? for more information. Login: Password: Your browser must have cookies turned on Keeling, David J. "From the Editors" Journal of Latin American Geography - Volume 2, Number 1, 2003, pp. i-ii University of Texas Press Excerpt Journal of Latin American Geography 2.1 (2003) i-ii [Access article in PDF] Welcome to the second volume of the Journal of Latin American Geography , the publication of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. With this second issue, we are pleased to continue forging a new outlet for scholarly research on issues relevant to Latin American peoples, places, landscapes, and environments. The Journal of LatinAmerican Geography The first article by Craig Revels considers the mahogany trade in Honduras during the fledgling years of independence. Timed at a moment when world trade in mahogany boomed in response to European furniture demands, Revels examines the commercial partnership and territorial conflicts arising from competing interests in land and forest concessions. He argues that, ultimately, resource extraction in this period set the stage for the large-scale landscape transformations that persisted throughout the nineteenth century and beyond. Our second paper by Kathleen McAfee explores a critical contemporary controversy, the potential repercussions of genetically engineered crops on agricultural diversity and agro-ecosystem survival. Looking specifically at maize in Oaxaca, Mexico, she provides a wealth of information on the maize gene flow controversy,... | |
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