From green to gene revolution: how farmers lost control of the seeds from agricultural modernisation

This document is developed by GRAIN and the Pesticides Eco-Alternatives Centre (PEAC) to raise Chinese farmers' awareness about the broad historical context of industrial agriculture, and how it paved the way for the introduction of modern varieties of crops and agricultural technologies.

Publication Date: 
30/09/2010
GRAIN
Attachment(s): 
From-fields-to-genebanks-en.pdf
Tags:
Green Revolution, Agriculture, Seeds, India, Rice, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Farmers, Technology, China