Un Análisis Espacial De La Gobernanza Y Evolución Agrícola De La Zona Metropolitana De Mexicali, México
A spatial analysis of governance and agricultural evolution of the metropolitan area of Mexicali, Mexico

Summary/Abstract: The article is an interpretation of decision-making with respect to agricultural development, given: the expansion of activities, changes of scale and increased urban mobility governance as the process of urbanization and consolidation of recent Mexicali determination as Metropolitan Area. By reviewing historical documents and DENUEINEGI a timeline analyzed with the crossing of variables, with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) maps overlaying getting built. Stressing that governance takes a leading role in development, for efficiency, quality and good orientation of state intervention in agricultural livelihoods, in two respects: first, agriculture can benefit from overall reforms that seek to improve governance ; and second, to give relevance to local management to political-geographical situation of Mexicali enhancing competitive advantages agricultural export quality; remembering that this is not born to be a farming town, with major support as a vast desert inhabited less than a hundred people becomes, which did not base its economy on agriculture-into an agricultural valley with high production volumes of export less than two decades.

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