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title: Farm subsidies in Mexico
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- Neil Ashton
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Project: <a href="http://subsidiosalcampo.org.mx/">Farm subsidy database for Mexico</a> by <a href="http://www.fundar.org.mx/">Fundar</a>

## About the project:

Fundar joined with two other organisations including University of
California of Santa Cruz to build the first farm subsidy database in
Mexico. Fundar received some technical assistance from the Environmental
Working Group, which operates the US farm subsidy database.

Currently Fundar is planning to relaunch the database with a new interface and new
features. One part time consultant and 2 developers work on the database
which is strongly prioritised by the organisation.

## Experiences

The farm subsidy database has seen substantial use from journalists
using the various search functionalities. During the last federal
election the database became an important source for both local and
national media outlets for monitoring politicians.

Collaboration between communities working on farm subsidies in Mexico, USA and Europe could be explored in order to share experiences on how to create useful tools for displaying and analysing farm subsidy data.

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