Sin maíz, no hay país: Mesoamericans and Civil Society in the Defeat of Monsanto

We start by observing: Corn is the most precious fruit of the relationship established between people and nature and springs from the bowels of the Earth Mother.¹ Next tomaíz(maize, corn), our culture flourished, creating a vision of the world that made possible the emergence of a civilization. Upon...

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Hauptverfasser:	ADELITA SANVICENTE TELLO, ARACELI CARREÓN
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Agricultural sciences Agriculture Agronomy Behavioral sciences Bioengineering Biological development Biological sciences Biology Biotechnology Botany Business Business structures Coarse grains Communities Corn Corporations Crops Developmental biology Field crops Food crops Grains Growth and development Human societies Lower class Peasant class Plant development Plant reproduction Plants Seeds Social classes Social groups Social stratification Social structures Sociology Transgenic plants
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Zusammenfassung:	We start by observing: Corn is the most precious fruit of the relationship established between people and nature and springs from the bowels of the Earth Mother.¹ Next tomaíz(maize, corn), our culture flourished, creating a vision of the world that made possible the emergence of a civilization. Upon domesticating corn, our Mesoamerican ancestors invented agriculture as art, science, technology, and knowledge, and with it they settled down and, thanks to the generosity and alimentary value of the cereal, liberated social time for art, astronomy, poetry, and religion. In short, maize enabled the creation of a civilization. In this