
AgricultureMay 30, 2024
Avocado Farms Aren’t Sustainable Now, but They Could Be
Avocados are marketed as a superfood, but growing them for an expanding world market has turned a rural Mexican state into an unsustainable monoculture
Viridiana Hernández Fernández is an assistant professor of Latin American environmental history at the University of Iowa.

Avocado Farms Aren’t Sustainable Now, but They Could Be
Avocados are marketed as a superfood, but growing them for an expanding world market has turned a rural Mexican state into an unsustainable monoculture