Who controls what we eat? This book reveals how dominant corporations, from the
supermarket to the seed industry, exert control over contemporary food systems. It analyzes …

Nanotechnology represents the latest in a line of technological innovations set to transform
agriculture and food production. From the farm to the table, nanotechnology research and …

This article analyzes how a new social movement against genetic engineering in agriculture
managed to turn a major industry upside down. While the social movements literature has …

Several scholars in science studies have lately sought to theorize the contemporary join of
capitalism and biotechnology. A variety of terms have been forwarded to name how 'life'in …

Intellectual property protections on seeds have increased dramatically in recent decades,
from the granting of patent‐like protections on certain types of seeds in 1970 to the …

An examination of how advocates for alternative agriculture confront “science-based”
regulation of genetically engineered crops. Genetic engineering has a wide range of …

Scott Prudham investigates a region that has in recent years seen more environmental
conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific …

New agro-biotechnologies promise bounty from fine-tuned molecular manipulation of food
crops. They already provide profits and export opportunities to a few transnational …

Plant breeders have long sought technologies to extend human control over nature. Early in
the twentieth century, this led some to experiment with startlingly strange tools like x-ray …

This article traces the emergence of industrial tree improvement along the Pacific Slope of
western Oregon and Washington. Anxieties about timber famine in the United States …