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Chaia Heller - Food, Farms, and Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops - 9780822351184 - V9780822351184
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Food, Farms, and Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops

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Description for Food, Farms, and Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops Hardback. Chaia Heller follows one of France's largest farmers' unions as it joins with peasants internationally to contest the hegemony of genetically modified foods, free trade, and industrial agriculture. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JPWD; KNAC; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
The Confédération Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers. In Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Chaia Heller analyzes the group's complex strategies and campaigns, including a call for a Europe-wide ban on GM crops and hormone-treated beef, and a protest staged at a McDonald's. Her study of the Confédération Paysanne shows the challenges small farms face in a postindustrial agricultural world. Heller also reveals how the language the union uses to argue against GMOs encompasses more than the risks ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822351184
SKU
V9780822351184
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About Chaia Heller
Chaia Heller is Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of The Ecology of Everyday Life: Rethinking the Desire for Nature.

Reviews for Food, Farms, and Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops
"Food, Farms, and Solidarity is an excellent study of one of the most fascinating social movements of the contemporary era and its struggle against GM crops. Academics and activists interested in agrarian, environmental, and food justice issues as well as (trans)national social movements should read this book."—Saturnino M. Borras Jr., coeditor of Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization "Food, Farms, and ... Read more

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