Globalization and Climate Change: Impact on Mexican Avocado Farming

Globalization and Climate Change: Impact on Mexican Avocado Farming
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Globalization and Climate Change: Impact on Mexican Avocado Farming
Executive Summary
Climatic change is one of the most significant long-term problems in the world. According to Leichenko and O'Brien (2008), greenhouse gas emission into the air is the main reason for the challenge. Poor management of waste by the different production companies contributes to the highest air corrosion compared to any other pollutant. Globalization is the reason for climatic change in the world. Before the exposure of many countries to the rest of the world, the air was safe a hence, a conducive environment. Global exposure introduces the world to industrialization and business. Industrialization entails the building of production companies that causes high pollution. The pollution then ends up affecting the climate forcing significant change with time. For this reason, Leichenko and O’Brien (2008) claim that the framework between globalization and climate change has a solid connection to be ignored. The two topics need to be discussed together to come up with a permanent solution.
Globalization and climatic changes have both positive and negative impacts on the world. Despite introducing industrialization and business, the aspects brought inequality. The inability to create balance in terms of benefits makes the framework less effective. For instance, in Mexico, the states located and the North benefit more than those in the South (Henrich, 2013). The high interest of investors in the North than South makes them benefit more in terms of job opportunities and business than the people in the South. The lack of government structures to ensure fairness creates a situation of winners and losers.
The paper will discuss globalization and how it leads to climatic change. It will analyze the concept of double exposure in Mexico, explaining its impact on social, economic, and avocado farming in the country. The discussion will be in a different section. First, the research will have a literature review that gives an overview of the various sources used in the study. It uses subtopics to cover each area of discussion. Additionally, the write-up will tackle the sensitivity analysis. The section will give details on the double exposure using Mexico as the case study. It will unveil how globalization and climate change affect avocado farming. Finally, the paper will have a conceptual model that summarizes the entire problem and makes it easy to assess.
Literature Review
Introduction
The connection between globalization and climatic change is wide than it is addressed. The global environmental change has mainly come about because of the desire of countries to explore global resources. Leichenko and O’Brien (2008) say that globalization and climate change are two frameworks that influence each other and must be addressed as one topic. The areas of discussion affect the world both positively and negatively. They create a situation where a community will have both winners and losers depending on their position. According to Young et al. (2010), global exposure leads to creating many industries that might affect the environment if not well managed. For instance, globalization introduces industrialization that pollutes the environment with toxic gases due to the fuel used in production. As much as the production process yields profits to some people, it also leads to loss—the gas causes global warming, which affects the climate. The destruction of the environment affects the farmers because they are forced to spend more on adopting the new environment or losing their livelihood.
Mexico is one of the countries that have experienced both the joy and sorrow of globalization and environmental change. The unfortunate situation where the investors concentrated on investing in the North, leaving the South undeveloped, creates an unfair imbalance. Henrich (2013) confirms that the lack of excellent government policies makes the people in the South suffer more than the North. Specifically, the government applies equally to taxes and prices in the entire country despite the lack of equality in service. The literature review discusses sources that explode on double exposure and how it affects avocado farming in Mexico.
Double Exposure
The abrupt climatic changes create a problem for the world, and it needs quick attention. The government's lack of balance between development and environmental protection makes a big problem. Leichenko and O’Brien's (2008) article “Pathways of Double Exposure” claim that discussing the two aspects independently might miss the fundamental aspect of the topic. The researchers claim that environmental change is directly linked to globalization and cannot be addressed without bringing in the other. They also expound more on the topic in their other article, “Double Exposure: A Conceptual Framework," by saying that the two frameworks directly influence each other (Leichenko & O’Brien, 2008). Notably, the introduction of production industries with international investors is the leading reason for global warming, thus increasing climatic changes. The polluted air released to the environment affects the normal environmental condition making changing the climate cycle. The impact becomes very risky, especially to the agricultural sector that entirely depends on the weather to be productive. Young et al.'s (2010) paper says that farmers are forced to adopt practice to ensure they remain relevant. With well-structured policies, the world can continue to enjoy the joy of industrialization without experiencing climate interference (United Nations, 2021).
Finally, Henrich (2013) supports the claim in his write-up by saying, globalization leads to inequality for some people to benefit while others lose. He used the example of Mexico, where he claims that the people of the North enjoy more benefits due to the high number of investors in their states compared to those that invest in the southern states. The lack of government policies that protect the Southern states increase the unfairness.
Mexico Climatic Change
Climate change is considered one of the most significant long-term challenges to the future of Mexico because of the sensitivity of the threats in association with environmental destruction. Alvarez-Bravo et al. (2017) say that health, water traffic disruption, and water are some of the areas at risk due to climatic changes. The author also explains how the future of Mexico will be if the situation is not handled. Henrich's (2013) research talks about how the poor management of the environment can completely shift the lifestyle. He says that the polluted air in the atmosphere causes the holding of the heat, which in turn makes the atmosphere warmer. Additionally, Goncalves (2018) expounds, saying the warm temperature causes evaporation in the water bodies, reducing the amount of water leading to drought, affecting the agricultural sector. The continuous carelessness might cause more damage to water and food insecurity, thus affecting the economy.
Social and Economic Impact
In his article, Henrich (2013) says that both the socials and economic sectors of Mexican have been impacted by globalization and climate change in many ways. He says that Mexicans forgot their culture and adopted the American culture during the globalization period. The interaction with the international investors made them start changing their diet and dressing and mix with that of the newcomers. On the other hand, the Mexican economy was also affected by the changes. Alvarez-Bravo et al. (2017) speak of the growing Mexican economy that comes with international business and industrialization. They say that the investors were able to build production companies that employed many people hence promoting the living standards of the citizens. Also, Young et al. 2010, expounds on the benefits of industrialization in terms of modernization. They claim the creation of new companies inspires building roads that will transport the produced goods to the market. Besides, globalization increases the demand for Mexican products. The access to the international market allows the farmers and other exporters to earn a living by selling the products internationally.
Globalization also has some negative impacts on the environment. According to Leichenko & O'Brien (2008), globalization has a direct connection to environmental change. The authors say that as much as globalization grows the economy, it also causes enormous destruction to the climate. The emission of polluted air from the industries to the atmosphere leads to global warnings, shifting the atmospheric temperature. The warm temperature leads to drought affecting the farming process. Also, Dorantees (2010) asserts that says that globalization causes inequality in Mexico. The people from the North enjoy more global exposure benefits than those from the South because the investors were more interested in the North than the South. The situation worsens the entire country to pay equal taxes, although the structures do not benefit the whole country.
Impact on Mexican Avocado Farming
Goncalves (2018) article speaks of the importance of the Mexican tressure in avocado farming and how it is affected by climatic changes. The write-up says that avocado depends on a stable climate for maximum production. The double change affects the plantation both positively and negatively. Globalization introduces farmers to the preservation and value-adding technologies, enabling them to gather more profits (Dorantees, 2013). Moreover, it enlarges the avocado business by introducing them to the international market (Alvarez-Bravo et al., 2017). On the other hand, it presents a negative impact because of climatic changes. For instance, unexpected climatic changes might reduce production due to a lack of enough water to sustain the trees (Young et al., 2010). The farmers have to adopt some practices to ensure the maintenance of products. The low production causes loss to the farmers hence, discouraging them from planting the trees. United Nations (2021) is confident that with the introduction of excellent policies to govern waste disposal from production, environmental changes will reduce significantly.
Sensitivity Analysis
Climate change is one of the most challenging world's problems in the 21st century. According to Leichenko and O’Brien (2008), the emulsion of toxic substances like the anthropogenic greenhouse gas is found to be the leading cause of climatic changes. Specifically, the increase of carelessness in the production sectors has made the world vulnerable to global warming, which becomes very dangerous to the world as a whole. The lack of preparedness for the abrupt challenge has affected production, especially in the agricultural sector. Most farmers lose many resources whenever they have to deal with unexpected climatic changes after investing in the farm with different expectatio...