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11%OFFElizabeth Fitting - The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside - 9780822349563 - V9780822349563
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The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside

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Description for The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside Paperback. Argues that maize biodiversity in central and southern Mexico is threatened as much by rural out-migration as by the flow of genes from genetically modified to local corn varieties. Num Pages: 320 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; KNAC; RNCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
When scientists discovered transgenes in local Mexican corn varieties in 2001, their findings intensified a debate about not only the import of genetically modified (GM) maize into Mexico but also the fate of the peasantry under neoliberal globalization. While the controversy initially focused on the extent to which gene flow from transgenic to local varieties threatens maize biodiversity, anti-GM activists emphasized the cultural significance of the crop in Mexico and demanded that campesinos and consumers have a voice in the creation of GM maize and rural policies. In The Struggle for Maize, Elizabeth Fitting explores the competing claims of the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822349563
SKU
V9780822349563
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99-1

About Elizabeth Fitting
Elizabeth Fitting is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Reviews for The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside
“The Struggle for Maize is an important book about a crucial topic, the debate over the dissemination of genetically modified (GM) corn in Mexico, the crop’s biological center of origin. The debate is significant because the more the modern varieties of corn become disseminated, the more biological diversity is lost, as that diversity depends on the traditional corn varieties cultivated ... Read more

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