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Hungry corporations : transnational biotech companies colonise the food chain /
This work provides a detailed account of how huge agrochemical corporations have come to control the food chain, exposing their influence over governments, regulatory bodies and university research. It examines how a handful of companies have: accelerated the industrialization of agriculture and the...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York : New York :
Zed Books in association with Econexus and the Pesticide Action Network Asia-Pacific (PAN-AP) ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave,
2003.
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol041/2003047933.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol053/2003047933.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2003047933.html |
| Summary: | This work provides a detailed account of how huge agrochemical corporations have come to control the food chain, exposing their influence over governments, regulatory bodies and university research. It examines how a handful of companies have: accelerated the industrialization of agriculture and the integration of the global economy; penetrated the previously independent world of scholarly research in universities and specialized agencies; manipulated public opinion and distorted our understanding of key environmental processes and issues; unduly influenced regulatory agencies and national governments; pushed the WTO, World Bank and FAO towards policies favouring corporate growth and profit; an bullied the governments and farmers of the developing countries to accept their technologies and products. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 242 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1842773003 1842773011 |