The last few years have witnessed a deterioration in living standards in Mexico. The economic crisis began in 1976 with the first devaluation of the peso; since then it has increasingly led to the immiserization of many Mexicans. With the "maxi-devaluation" of 1982 and some of the harshest austerity measures applied by any government in Latin America, average real incomes are now below the levels of the mid-1960s. The research results reported here are about the economic impact on rural smallholders in Puebla. To put these results into perspective, a brief review of the historical context of the economic, food, and nutrition situation of Mexico is warranted.
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