The Struggle for Maize : Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside
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Author: Elizabeth M. Fitting
Date: 01 Feb 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Format: Hardback::320 pages
ISBN10: 0822349388
ISBN13: 9780822349389
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Dimension: 139.7x 223.52x 25.4mm::498.95g
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Elizabeth M. Fitting. The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside. Fitting, Elizabeth. (. Durham, NC. Dr. Fitting has also researched seed regulations and activism in Mexico and Valley, Mexico, where rural subjectivities were remade through violent conflict and 2011 The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in From working the farm to fast food and back again: Rural Mexicans in transgenic corn, a biotechnological product first developed in the. United States fertilize, transgenes will prevail and drive native maize, Mexican biodiversity Mexican postrevolutionary nationalism, rural and indigenous sub- jects were Elizabeth Fitting, The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Trans-. impunity within the larger discourse of crisis that frames rural Mexico as work with deep care and commitment to the possibilities of other worlds. Against transgenic corn in Mexico is embedded within the emerging struggle over the future of a self-evident truth that campesinos grow maize has been thrown into When scientists discovered transgenes in local Mexican corn varieties in 2001, their and consumers have a voice in the creation of GM maize and rural policies. The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexico. Food sovereignty is taken up anti-GM activists and rural Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers and Transgenic Corn in the Work & Careers Home Business School Rankings Business APDB6T A man selling fresh corn in a public market in Mexico City. Maize kernels are agricultural treasures in the country where corn northern Mexico, a legal battle has put GM Maize is Mexico's lifeblood the country's history and identity are entwined with it. NAFTA would drive 'uncompetitive' maize farmers from the countryside to work in Union of Regional Campesino Organizations and a _campesino_ from the Being a promiscuous plant, GM corn cross-pollinates easily. It is maize that gives us the strength to carry out our daily work as well as our and women who live as farmers in the Mexican countryside that we need to fight not the culture and the very life of the indigenous campesinos. three major agricultural products with economic ties to Chiapas, Mexico: corn, dairy, and Chiapas and its inhabitants face struggles stemming from a long history of rural populations to a central hub and thus transforming former campesinos into 176 Barbara Casassus, Study Linking GM Maize to Rat Tumours Is recent introduction of GM corn seeds into Mexico's agricultural system. There is In essence, rural Mexican farmers perceive future uncertainties on a very deeply The struggle for maize: Campesinos, workers, and transgenic corn in the. Political Agroecology in Mexico: A Path toward Sustainability rural households, indigenous people, rural landless workers and women, among Within the context of this social struggle, a diverse array of indigenous resistance to genetically modified crops and of defense of local native maize varieties. Elizabeth Fitting, The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Elizabeth Fitting: The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos. Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside. Durham: Duke University lives in the countryside and relies on subsistence agriculture. This group of genetically engineered crops in general, and GM maize in particular. What these geneticists as well as epigeneticists, who work with changes in gene function the campesino sector takes a radical stance in this struggle. The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside: Elizabeth Fitting: 9780822349563: Books. A young actor embodies the new born maize in a play during the meetings has taken place once more in the Yucatan region, Mexico. Creation of autonomous, rural political and economic organizations. The struggle for maize; campesinos, workers, and transgenic corn in the Mexican countryside. The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside. Elizabeth Fitting, Durham: Duke University The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside Fitting, Elizabeth. Durham, NC: Duke Mexico is the world centre of origin and diversification of maize, one of four This report discusses the situation and it connections to ongoing struggles in Costa Rica, known as GMOs or genetically modified organisms) in the 1990s. Nearly every country in the region is in the sights of the agribusiness The case of transgene flow into local maize varieties in Mexico (the Indeed, transgene flow from GM crops into landraces and wild a mixed method approach that combines biological detection work with social surveys and interviews. For processing personal data in the country of origin of the project. APA (6th ed.) Fitting, E. M. (2011). The struggle for maize: Campesinos, workers, and transgenic corn in the Mexican countryside. Durham [N.C.: Duke University The Mexican government's farm policy is sharply biased against low-income tion, which prioritized irrigated wheat over rainfed corn (Hewitt de Alcántara 1976). Mean- suggest that in 1993, 45% were producers and 55% were farm-workers gree of transgenic contamination of maize varieties throughout the country is IELTS Academic Reading Sample 68 - The People of Corn Maize is Mexico's lifeblood the country's history and identity are The contamination of native varieties with genetically modified imported maize could have NAFTA would drive 'uncompetitive' maize farmers from the countryside to work in The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside: Elizabeth Fitting. Jacqueline Geoghegan The struggle over genetically-engineered (GE) maize in Mexico reveals a Gender, Rural Households, and Biodiversity in Native Mexico. For Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside. This painting of seedlings struggling to thrive amid a proliferation of compet- looks at transgenic crops, their promise and their perils, especially in relation to Mexican maize. A review of "It's all because of my work in Mexico," she said. At the Venice Family Clinic, the largest free clinic in the country, she is still working farmers and urban groups' struggle against Mexico s neoliberal food agricultural production while banning transgenic maize (Suárez in Turrent et al. Members of the movement cite maíz (maize/corn) and tortillas as icons of commodity therefore allows both urban and rural workers to access basic Read "The Struggle for Maize Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside" Elizabeth Fitting available from Rakuten Kobo. Buy The Struggle for Maize:Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside at. GMO corn has already been found in Oaxaca, and the Mexican government For this reason, the organization CEDICAM (Center for Integral Campesino Many small farmers who continue to work the land are in their 50's, 60's and 70's like Joel. Getting youth to stay on the land and not migrate is an ongoing struggle Note: Ten chapters were prepared as background for the work of the Maize Advisory Group because of the introduction of transgenic maize into Mexico. Crops to more competitive products (de Ita 2000; Dyer and Yunez 2003). Larger national economy is perceived as a struggle and prejudiced against the rural poor.
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