Food, Farms & Solidarity French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops

The Confédération Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers. In Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Chaia Heller analyzes the...

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Main Author: Heller, Chaia (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Duke University Press 2013
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