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The Struggle for Maize : Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside /
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 th...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2010]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF TABLES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION: The Struggle for Mexican Maize
- Part 1: Debates
- CHAPTER 1 Transgenic Maize and Its Experts
- CHAPTER 2 Corn and the Hybrid Nation
- Part II: Livelihoods
- CHAPTER 3 Community and Conflict
- CHAPTER 4 Remaking the Countryside
- CHAPTER 5 From Campesinos to Migrant and Maquila Workers?
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX: Producer Interviews, 2001-2002
- NOTES
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX