The Troubled Birth of the “Biotech Century”: Global Corporate Power and Its Limits
The Troubled Birth of the “Biotech Century”: Global Corporate Power and Its Limits
This chapter examines the contestation of corporate power in the governance of genetically modified organisms, discusses recent cases of contestation in agribiotechnology, and evaluates the actual extent of corporate power in global food governance and the potential of social and political checks on international business and technology. It highlights the resistance of consumers, food producers, retailers, farmers, and regulators to the growth of agricultural biotechnology.
Keywords: corporate power, genetically modified organisms, contestation, agribiotechnology, global food governance, agricultural biotechnology
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