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Spotlights the history of plant breeding and the seed industry, particularly genetically engineered crops. This second edition includes an extensive new chapter on recent controversies.

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"Puts the thorny questions raised in the biotechnology debate into historical perspective." - Deborah Fitzgerald, ISIS; "Kloppenburg examines the question of whether society will be able to use our enhanced capabilities for manipulating the genetic code to develop and deploy new plant varieties in ways that are economically productive, socially equitable, and ecologically benign." - Eric Roberts, The Times Higher Education Supplement, London"

First the Seed The Political Economy of Plant

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      Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Publication Date: 3/30/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780299192440, 978-0299192440
      ISBN10: 029919244X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Spotlights the history of plant breeding and the seed industry, particularly genetically engineered crops. This second edition includes an extensive new chapter on recent controversies.

      Trade Review
      "Puts the thorny questions raised in the biotechnology debate into historical perspective." - Deborah Fitzgerald, ISIS; "Kloppenburg examines the question of whether society will be able to use our enhanced capabilities for manipulating the genetic code to develop and deploy new plant varieties in ways that are economically productive, socially equitable, and ecologically benign." - Eric Roberts, The Times Higher Education Supplement, London"

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