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Genetic Engineering in Agriculture (Hardcopy)

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ENVIRONMENT / AGRICULTURE

Those are not your grandfather’s potato chips.

GENETICALLY MODIFIED (GM) crops are in nearly every grain silo and supermarket in the US. These crops aren’t labeled as such, and they flooded our fields before Americans had the chance to ask:

Do we really need genetically modified crops?

Are they safe?

Whom do they benefit?

What are they, exactly?

The livelihoods of millions of farmers, the health of billions of people, and the integrity of thousands of ecosystems depend how we answer these questions. So do the profits of the huge corporations that sell these technologies. In Genetic Engineering in Agriculture, noted agroecologist Miguel Altieri demystifies the hype around GM crops and makes a case for a future based on sustainable agriculture and social justice—not on crops designed to increase corporate control over what we eat.

Additional information

Weight	0.27 lbs
Dimensions	5 × 0.5 × 7.75 in
Publisher	Food First Books
Publishing Date	10-01-2004
About the Author	Miguel A. Altieri has been a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley since 1980, where he is currently Professor of Entomology with the department of Environmental Science Policy and Management. During his tenure he has actively taught agroecology and sustainable agriculture at Berkeley as well as in a number of universities in Latin America and Europe. He is the author of ten books (among them the pioneering textbook Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture) and of more than 200 scientific articles. Dr. Altieri’s research has focused on ways of enhancing biodiversity in agroecosystems to optimize biological pest control and the general ecological performance of agricultural systems. In the last few years he has been involved in implementing agroecology courses through long distance training in Mexico and South America, experience he now is extending to Europe and the US.