05095nam 2200913Ia 450 991081860280332120200520144314.00-292-73946-X10.7560/739451(CKB)2670000000275277(OCoLC)820830343(CaPaEBR)ebrary10608362(SSID)ssj0000755370(PQKBManifestationID)11438048(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755370(PQKBWorkID)10729749(PQKB)11543905(MiAaPQ)EBC3443622(OCoLC)830023896(MdBmJHUP)muse18691(Au-PeEL)EBL3443622(CaPaEBR)ebr10608362(OCoLC)929158895(DE-B1597)587084(OCoLC)1280944569(DE-B1597)9780292739468(EXLCZ)99267000000027527720120530d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCorporate crops biotechnology, agriculture, and the struggle for control /Gabriela Pechlaner1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20121 online resource (302 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-73945-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Agricultural biotechnologies on the farm and around the world -- The coming of the third regime? Agricultural biotechnology regulation in Canada and the United States -- Biotechnology on the prairies: the rise of canola -- . . . and the fall of wheat -- Legal offense and defense on the Canadian prairies -- From when cotton was king to king Monsanto -- Starting a new regime: training the locals.Biotechnology crop production area increased from 1.7 million hectares to 148 million hectares worldwide between 1996 to 2010. While genetically modified food is a contentious issue, the debates are usually limited to health and environmental concerns, ignoring the broader questions of social control that arise when food production methods become corporate-owned intellectual property. Drawing on legal documents and dozens of interviews with farmers and other stakeholders, Corporate Crops covers four case studies based around litigation between biotechnology corporations and farmers. Pechlaner investigates the extent to which the proprietary aspects of biotechnologies—from patents on seeds to a plethora of new rules and contractual obligations associated with the technologies—are reorganizing crop production. The lawsuits include patent infringement litigation launched by Monsanto against a Saskatchewan canola farmer who, in turn, claimed his crops had been involuntarily contaminated by the company’s GM technology; a class action application by two Saskatchewan organic canola farmers launched against Monsanto and Aventis (later Bayer) for the loss of their organic market due to contamination with GMOs; and two cases in Mississippi in which Monsanto sued farmers for saving seeds containing its patented GM technology. Pechlaner argues that well-funded corporate lawyers have a decided advantage over independent farmers in the courts and in creating new forms of power and control in agricultural production. Corporate Crops demonstrates the effects of this intersection between the courts and the fields where profits, not just a food supply, are reaped.Agricultural biotechnologyUnited StatesAgricultural biotechnologyCanadaPlant biotechnologyUnited StatesPlant biotechnologyCanadaTransgenic plantsUnited StatesTransgenic plantsCanadaIntellectual propertyUnited StatesIntellectual propertyCanadaFamily farmsUnited StatesFamily farmsCanadaAgricultural biotechnologyLaw and legislationUnited StatesAgricultural biotechnologyLaw and legislationCanadaPlant biotechnologyLaw and legislationUnited StatesPlant biotechnologyLaw and legislationCanadaAgricultural biotechnologyAgricultural biotechnologyPlant biotechnologyPlant biotechnologyTransgenic plantsTransgenic plantsIntellectual propertyIntellectual propertyFamily farmsFamily farmsAgricultural biotechnologyLaw and legislationAgricultural biotechnologyLaw and legislationPlant biotechnologyLaw and legislationPlant biotechnologyLaw and legislation630Pechlaner Gabriela1968-1637739MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818602803321Corporate crops3979744UNINA