Welcome to the first issue of 2025! We start this year with the publication of the thematic section “Labor, Social, and Health Impacts of Commercial Agriculture on Farmworkers in Mexico.” As commercial agriculture—including the production of fresh foods for international markets—has expanded in Mexico, this section provides a critical assessment of the multiple impacts in the economy and society that this trend has generated in different regions of the country. Grounded in ethnographic research, the contributions question the assumptions of those advocating neoliberal agrarian policies that present export agriculture as the best recipe for creating jobs in rural areas, improving wages and working conditions for farmworkers, and reducing labor migration to the United States.

The first essay, “Export Agribusiness, Multimodal Dispossession, and Livelihood Reconstitution in Baja California” by Matthew Fischer-Daly (Pennsylvania State University) and myself (University of Texas at Arlington), discusses the effects of the expansion of the California’s agribusiness...

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