Land and food rights, agriculture, globalization. Researcher, writer, father, Red Sox fan. Author: "Eating Tomorrow" Personal - RT not endorsement. @IATP
Feb 8, 2023 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
1/10 Time to settle down, class. Today's topic is economic disinformation, the use of economic methods to present false claims as data-driven "facts." Today's case: @stuartsmyth66's claim of huge economic losses from #Mexico's restrictions on #GMO corn imports.
The Feb 2022 paper models economic costs to #Mexican producers and processors. In economic modeling, the results are often driven by the modelers' assumptions, not the model or data.
Assumption #1: The ban will shut off yellow corn imports in 2024. Nope. farmprogress.com/marketing/mexi…