LEADER 05122nam 2200913Ia 450 001 9910786200303321 005 20230801225229.0 010 $a0-292-73946-X 024 7 $a10.7560/739451 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275277 035 $a(OCoLC)820830343 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10608362 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755370 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11438048 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755370 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10729749 035 $a(PQKB)11543905 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443622 035 $a(OCoLC)830023896 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18691 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443622 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10608362 035 $a(OCoLC)929158895 035 $a(DE-B1597)587084 035 $a(OCoLC)1280944569 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292739468 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275277 100 $a20120530d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCorporate crops$b[electronic resource] $ebiotechnology, agriculture, and the struggle for control /$fGabriela Pechlaner 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (302 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-73945-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAgricultural 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. 330 $aBiotechnology 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. 606 $aAgricultural biotechnology$zUnited States 606 $aAgricultural biotechnology$zCanada 606 $aPlant biotechnology$zUnited States 606 $aPlant biotechnology$zCanada 606 $aTransgenic plants$zUnited States 606 $aTransgenic plants$zCanada 606 $aIntellectual property$zUnited States 606 $aIntellectual property$zCanada 606 $aFamily farms$zUnited States 606 $aFamily farms$zCanada 606 $aAgricultural biotechnology$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aAgricultural biotechnology$xLaw and legislation$zCanada 606 $aPlant biotechnology$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aPlant biotechnology$xLaw and legislation$zCanada 615 0$aAgricultural biotechnology 615 0$aAgricultural biotechnology 615 0$aPlant biotechnology 615 0$aPlant biotechnology 615 0$aTransgenic plants 615 0$aTransgenic plants 615 0$aIntellectual property 615 0$aIntellectual property 615 0$aFamily farms 615 0$aFamily farms 615 0$aAgricultural biotechnology$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aAgricultural biotechnology$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aPlant biotechnology$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aPlant biotechnology$xLaw and legislation 676 $a630 700 $aPechlaner$b Gabriela$f1968-$01533256 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786200303321 996 $aCorporate crops$93780092 997 $aUNINA