First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492-2000

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UPC:
9780521395588
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
6/29/1990
Author:
Jack Ralph Kloppenburg Jr
Language:
english
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A history of scientific and commercial lines of plant development in the USA, this book traces the transformation of the seed from a public good produced and reproduced by farmers, into a commodity controlled by businesses and corporations divorced from the uses of their product.