First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology

by Jack R. Kloppenburg

Book Overview

First the Seed spotlights the history of plant breeding and shows how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnology industry. This second edition of a classic work in the political economy of science includes an extensive, new chapter updating the analysis to include the most recent developments in the struggle over the direction of crop genetic engineering.

1988 Cloth, 1990 Paperback, Cambridge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029919244X
• ISBN13: 9780299192440
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"