Food for the few : neoliberal globalism and biotechnology in Latin America
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Food for the few : neoliberal globalism and biotechnology in Latin America
University of Texas Press, 2008
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Description
Recent decades have seen tremendous changes in Latin America's agricultural sector, resulting from a broad program of liberalization instigated under pressure from the United States, the IMF, and the World Bank. Tariffs have been lifted, agricultural markets have been opened and privatized, land reform policies have been restricted or eliminated, and the perspective has shifted radically toward exportation rather than toward the goal of feeding local citizens. Examining the impact of these transformations, the contributors to Food for the Few: Neoliberal Globalism and Biotechnology in Latin America paint a somber portrait, describing local peasant farmers who have been made responsible for protecting impossibly vast areas of biodiversity, or are forced to specialize in one genetically modified crop, or who become low-wage workers within a capitalized farm complex. Using dozens of examples such as these, the deleterious consequences are surveyed from the perspectives of experts in diverse fields, including anthropology, economics, geography, political science, and sociology.
From Kathy McAfee's "Exporting Crop Biotechnology: The Myth of Molecular Miracles," to Liz Fitting's "Importing Corn, Exporting Labor: The Neoliberal Corn Regime, GMOs, and the Erosion of Mexican Biodiversity," Food for the Few balances disturbing findings with hopeful assessments of emerging grassroots alternatives. Surveying not only the Latin American conditions that led to bankruptcy for countless farmers but also the North's practices, such as the heavy subsidies implemented to protect North American farmers, these essays represent a comprehensive, keenly informed response to a pivotal global crisis.
Table of Contents
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1. Neoliberal Globalism and the Biotechnology Revolution: Economic and Historical Context (Gerardo Otero) * Chapter 2. Latin American Agriculture, Food, and Biotechnology: Temperate Dietary Pattern Adoption and Unsustainability (Gerardo Otero and Gabriela Pechlaner) * Chapter 3. Exporting Crop Biotechnology: The Myth of Molecular Miracles (Kathy McAfee) * Chapter 4. Biosafety Regulation and Global Governance: The Problem of Absentee Expertise in Latin America (Kees Jansen and Esther Roquas) * Chapter 5. Unnatural Growth: The Political Economy of Biotechnology in Mexico (Manuel Poitras) * Chapter 6. Importing Corn, Exporting Labor: The Neoliberal Corn Regime, GMOs, and the Erosion of Mexican Biodiversity (Elizabeth Fitting) * Chapter 7. Political Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology in North America: The Case of rBST in La Laguna, Mexico (Gerardo Otero, Manuel Poitras, and Gabriela Pechlaner) * Chapter 8. Genetically Modified Soybeans and the Crisis of Argentina's Agriculture Model (Miguel Teubal) * Chapter 9. Brazilian Biotechnology Governance: Consensus and Conflict over Genetically Modified Crops (Wendy E. Jepson, Christian Brannstrom, and Renato Stancato de Souza) * Chapter 10. Brazilian Farmers at a Crossroads: Biotech Industrialization of Agriculture or New Alternatives for Family Farmers? (Shuji Hisano and Simone Altoe) * Chapter 11. Social Movements and Techno-Democracy: Reclaiming the Genetic Commons (Manuel Poitras) * Chapter 12. Conclusion: Food for the Few? (Gerardo Otero and Gabriela Pechlaner) * About the Contributors * Index
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