"For ages, farmers have domesticated plant varieties, while scientists have “made” nature through hybridization and other processes. This give and take—mediated through negotiations, persuasion, the marketplace, and even coercion—has resulted in what we call “nature” and has led to a homogenization of plant crops. Yet homogenization has led to new problems: genetic vulnerability, and the lack of systems to maintain plant germplasm of var ..."
"Plants, Power and Profit provides a clear and sober assessment of the economic, social, political and environmental effects of plant biotechnology, presenting the results of the most comprehensive research programme to date on the subject. Those effects, they predict, will be profound."
"This book provides an assessment of the economic, social, political and environmental effects of plant biotechnology. The authors begin with an examination of current research, and conclude that while investment in the field is growing, it is being increasingly dominated by a small number of multinational corporations in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Japanese experts predict that by 2000, profits from such plants will amou ..."