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Farmers still grow traditional corn and bean crops in the Xico Crater on ejido land, a form of community property granted after the Mexican Revolution, even though the ancient volcano is slowly being engulfed by the sprawl of Mexico City, whose center lies some 19 miles away. Greater Mexico City, with more than 20 million residents, is the fifth-largest city on the planet, drawing emigrants from rural areas throughout the nation seeking better jobs and better lives in the city. It’s a global phenomenon that in 2007 led the United Nations to declare that for the first time in history the world had more urban than rural residents. Researchers project the planet will lose between 1.8 and 2.4 percent of its agricultural land between 2020 and 2030 to urbanization alone. The result? More city dwellers depending on fewer farmers with less land to feed them.

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Farmers still grow traditional corn and bean crops in the Xico Crater on ejido land, a form of community property granted after the Mexican Revolution, even though the ancient volcano is slowly being engulfed by the sprawl of Mexico City, whose center lies some 19 miles away. Greater Mexico City, with more than 20 million residents, is the fifth-largest city on the planet, drawing emigrants from rural areas throughout the nation seeking better jobs and better lives in the city. It’s a global phenomenon that in 2007 led the United Nations to declare that for the first time in history the world had more urban than rural residents. Researchers project the planet will lose between 1.8 and 2.4 percent of its agricultural land between 2020 and 2030 to urbanization alone. The result? More city dwellers depending on fewer farmers with less land to feed them.

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