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With the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexico experienced a rapid expansion in highly industrialized food and beverage products. This has transformed supply and distribution structures and led to changes in dietary patterns. The objective of this paper is to explain how these transformations led to the configuration of a hybrid distribution and consumption scheme that affected the expenditure, frequency and quantities of ultra-processed and fast foods consumed in Mexican households during the period 2000-2020. This hybrid model is associated with an increase in diseases such as obesity and chronic degenerative diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Excess weight and obesity are a major public health problem affecting Mexico's economic development. Studying them from a medical or epidemiological approach has proved insufficient, given the size of the problem and myriad factors underlying it. It is therefore time to bring an economic perspective into the analysis to find the structural causes, looking at the ways food is eaten, which shape the hegemonic supply and demand patterns imposed by the globalization of the markets, infringing on local patterns. The empirical evidence shows that the shift from a traditional diet to an industrialized diet with high sugar content and refined flours has fueled the prevalence of this public health problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes how major corporations in the food, beverage and tobacco industries in Mexico have grown, as well as potential implications for the structure and efficiency of this sector. Building a labor productivity indicator for 12 branches and 38 classes of activities for the 1994-2008 time period, and applying these to the series obtained from shift-share decomposition analysis, revealed growing structural heterogeneity along with increasing efficiency for a limited number of activities. Similarly, the results indicate that the impact of workers changing sectors on the evolution of productivity varies as a function of the business strategies adopted, but was negative on the whole for the period, evidence of a regressive structural change in the sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to identify the determinants of production in Guanajuato's manufacturing industry in three divisions: food, autoparts and footwear. The results of the econometric estimates show that the autoparts industry is quite sensitive to external market conditions. The food industry is strongly linked to the domestic market. The footwear industry, since the beginning of this decade has been facing a crisis derived from the rapid growth of imports, and it is expected to maintain this negative trend for the next few years. Favorable conditions in the external market drove the increased growth of autoparts and footwear, but this result assumes that companies are able to respond and to adapt themselves to the new conditions and improve their positioning in the national market -important factors to consider in designing an industrial policy at a state level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]