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Food, Farms, and Solidarity : French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops /
The Confédération Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers. In Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Chaia Heller analyzes the g...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century : 42
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- About the series
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Creating a New Rationality of Agriculture in a Postindustrial World
- Part I. Toward a New Rationality of Agriculture
- 2 The New Paysan Movements: French Industrialized Agriculture and the Rise of the Postindustrial Paysan
- 3 The Confédération Paysanne: Philosophy, Structure, and Constituency
- Part II. The Confédération Paysanne's Early Anti- gmo Campaign, from Risk to Globalization
- 4 Union Activism and Programs: Early Campaigns and Paysan Agriculture
- 5 We Have Always Been Modern: Toward a Progressive Anti- gmo Campaign
- 6 The Trial of the gmos: Deploying Discourses from Risk to Globalization
- Part III. How France Grew Its Own Alter-globalization Movement
- 7 Caravans, gmos, and McDo: The Campaign Continues
- 8 Operation Roquefort, Part I: Traveling to Washington, D.C.
- 9 Operation Roquefort, Part II: The Battle of Seattle
- 10 Postindustrial Paysans in a Post- Seattle World: New Movements, New Possibilities
- 11 Conclusion: French Lessons; What's to Be Learned?
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index