The Struggle for Maize

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Fitting is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction: The Struggle for Mexican Maize 1 Part I: Debates 33 1. Transgenic Maize and Its Experts 35 2. Corn and the Hybrid Nation 75 Part II: Livelihoods 117 3. Community and Conflict 120 4. Remaking the Countryside 155 5. From Campesinos to Migrant and Maquila Workers? 197 Conclusion 230 Appendix: Producer Interviews, 2001 2002 239 Notes 249 Glossary 265 Bibliography 271 Index 293

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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.

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List of Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations xv
Introduction: The Struggle for Mexican Maize 1
Part I: Debates 33

1. Transgenic Maize and Its Experts 35
2. Corn and the Hybrid Nation 75
   Part II: Livelihoods 117
3. Community and Conflict 120
4. Remaking the Countryside 155
5. From Campesinos to Migrant and Maquila Workers? 197
   Conclusion 230
   Appendix: Producer Interviews, 2001 2002 239
   Notes 249
   Glossary 265
   Bibliography 271
   Index 293