Kernels of Resistance: Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power

by Liza Grandia

The story of how Mesoamerican food activists faced down Monsanto . . . and won

Right before the 2014 World Cup, US trade interests pressured Guatemala's legislature into lifting its national ban on genetically modified (GM) crops and criminalizing traditional seed saving practices. Maya elders responded with a campaign of mass civil disobedience, blocking highways until the Guatemalan Congress repealed this "Monsanto Law." Uniting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295753307
• ISBN13: 9780295753300
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 414 Pages