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The struggle for maize : campesinos, workers, and transgenic corn in the Mexican countryside / Elizabeth Fitting.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fitting, Elizabeth M., 1969-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corn industry--Mexico.
- Corn industry.
- Corn--Genetic engineering--Mexico.
- Corn.
- Transgenic plants--Mexico.
- Transgenic plants.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Transgenic maize and its experts
- Corn and the hybrid nation
- Community and conflict
- Remaking the countryside
- From campesinos to migrant and maquila workers?
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613252203
- 9781283252201
- 1283252201
- 9780822393863
- 0822393867
- OCLC:
- 1144915670
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