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Paper on Mezcal and Underdevelopment
This assignment is asking you to engage the issues, controversies, and dilemmas concerning mezcal and underdevelopment. Your papers should address the lectures, readings, videos, and discussions.
- Please answer the following questions in your write-up:
Can the production of mezcal be a vehicle to address underdevelopment in rural parts of Mexico that suffer twice the rate of poverty as the rest of the country? Why or why not? If it would help alleviate poverty, how it would do that? If it would not, why wouldn’t it contribute to reducing poverty? How has the production of mezcal been impacted by recent trends, circumstances, and events? In your assessment, address the promise and peril of mezcal examining the issues, controversies, and dynamics shaping mezcal production, distribution, and consumption. Additionally, connect your discussion to the research findings and core concepts raised during the second half of the course concerning solutions to underdevelopment.