First published in 1988, Kloppenburg's (agricultural and life sciences, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) text offers a political and economic history of plant breeding and the seed industry, showing how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnol…
"First the Seed spotlights the history of plant breeding and shows how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnology industry. This second edition of a classic work in the political economy of science includes an extensive, new chapter u…
First the seed spotlights the history of plant breeding and shows how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnology industry. This second edition of a classic work in the political economy of science includes an extensive, new chapter up…