Name: Corporate Crops: Biotechnology, Agriculture, and the Struggle for Control (en Inglés)
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Author: Gabriela Pechlaner
ISBN: 9780292756878

portada Corporate Crops: Biotechnology, Agriculture, and the Struggle for Control (en Inglés)

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Editorial

University Of Texas Press

Autor

Gabriela Pechlaner

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

301

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780292756878

Categorías

Producción de alimenos

Corporate Crops: Biotechnology, Agriculture, and the Struggle for Control (en Inglés)

Gabriela Pechlaner (Autor) · University Of Texas Press · Tapa Blanda

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Biotechnology crop production area increased from 1.7 million hectares to 148 million hectares worldwide between 1996 to 2010. While genetically modified food is a contentious issue, the debates are usually limited to health and environmental concerns, ignoring the broader questions of social control that arise when food production methods become corporate-owned intellectual property. Drawing on legal documents and dozens of interviews with farmers and other stakeholders, Corporate Crops covers four case studies based around litigation between biotechnology corporations and farmers. Pechlaner investigates the extent to which the proprietary aspects of biotechnologies—from patents on seeds to a plethora of new rules and contractual obligations associated with the technologies—are reorganizing crop production.The lawsuits include patent infringement litigation launched by Monsanto against a Saskatchewan canola farmer who, in turn, claimed his crops had been involuntarily contaminated by the company's GM technology; a class action application by two Saskatchewan organic canola farmers launched against Monsanto and Aventis (later Bayer) for the loss of their organic market due to contamination with GMOs; and two cases in Mississippi in which Monsanto sued farmers for saving seeds containing its patented GM technology. Pechlaner argues that well-funded corporate lawyers have a decided advantage over independent farmers in the courts and in creating new forms of power and control in agricultural production. Corporate Crops demonstrates the effects of this intersection between the courts and the fields where profits, not just a food supply, are reaped.