First the Seed The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492-2000

Jack Kloppenburg, First the Seed The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492-2000, Second Edition, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2004. This book recounts the political economy of agriculture with astonishing clarity and depth. Kloppenburg provides a paradigmatic example of the impacts of the privatization on a relatively communal form of life, farming.