Brian Tokar brings us a gold mine of in-depth investigations showing exactly how corporations and global institutions are systematically manipulating governments, farmers and public opinion to gain control over our food supply. Gene Traders provides the detail and insight we need to take part in the global democracy movement to reverse this catastrophe. [Frances Moore Lappe] In this broad and comprehensive survey, seven authors show how the interplay of trade policy, 'development' politics and biotechnology increases dependency and hunger, while compromising the survival of traditional farmers and their communities.
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Gene Traders opens with a revealing look by editor Brian Tokar at the evolution of the global movement for food sovereignty that has been sparked by genetic engineering.
S’ra DeSantis makes the connections between trade deals like NAFTA and the FTAA, genetically modified corn, and the contamination of Latin American crops.
Aziz Choudry describes how World Trade Organization’s "intellectual property" rules promote monopoly rights and biopiracy.
Brian Tokar examines the World’s Bank promotion of dubious biotech schemes in the name of sustainability and a new "Green Revolution."
Mwananyanda Mbikusita Lewanika and Lawrence Tsimese report from Africa about Zambia’s food aid crisis and the continent’s tough choices on food security.
Shiri Pasternak explains how food aid has become food dumping and displaced agricultural communities.
Devinder Sharma deconstructs world hunger and the myths of biotech agriculture "feeding the world."
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Brian Tokar has been an activist, author and a leading critical voice for ecological activism since the 1980s, and is currently the Director of the Institute for Social Ecology and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Green Alternative (1987, revised 1992) and Earth for Sale (1997), edited two books on the politics of biotechnology, Redesigning Life? and Gene Traders, and co-edited the collection, Crisis in Food and Agriculture: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal (Monthly Review Press, expected in November 2010). Brian received a Project Censored award for his investigative history of Monsanto Corporation (first published in The Ecologist) and is a founding member of the activist network Climate SOS (climatesos.org).
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A "must-read" for anyone concerned about world starvation,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade, and the Globalization of Hunger (Paperback)
Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade, And The Globalization Of Hunger is a selection of seven essays by learned authors questioning the spread of genetically engineered agriculture worldwide. Revealing ways by which developments in biotechnology cn actually increase dependency and hunger, while compromising the survival of traditional farmers and their communities, as well as the evolution of the global movement for food sovereignty brought about by genetic engineering. Specific topics include how the World Trade Organization's "intellectual property" rules promote monopolies and biopiracy, how Zambia's food aid crisis has forced tough choices, how food aid can become food dumping and displace agricultural communities, deconstructs common myths about "feeding the world", and much more. A highly recommended, keynote discussion and an absolute "must-read" for anyone concerned about world starvation.
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Let's globalize sustainable agriculture, not poverty, hunger and ecological destruction!,
By wildflowerboy (planet earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade, and the Globalization of Hunger (Paperback)
If you're interested in understanding the global movement for food security inspired by the biotechnology controversy, then read this book. Edited by the brilliant social ecologist Brian Tokar, this brief anthology of essays reveals how the biotech industry displaces agricultural communities, contaminates the environment, and increases poverty and world hunger. Backed by financial monopolies like the WTO and the World Bank and international trade agreements like NAFTA, CAFTA, and the FTAA, the biotechnology corporations are endangering public health, destoying the landbase, and undermining the democratic rights of the world's citizenry to make collective decisions about food policy. Simply put, this is an urgent book about one of the most important ecological and social problems confronting us today and I hope it gets widely read. I also recommend reading any of Vandana Shiva's excellent books on this crucial topic and (if you can) to only buy locally grown, organic food.
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