Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization
by Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
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Readers of this book will encounter peasants and farmers who struggle at home and traverse national borders to challenge the World Trade Organization and other powerful global institutions.: Studies the activists in Brazil who uproot plots of genetically modified soybeans, forest dwellers in Indonesia who chop down rubber plantations to cultivate rice to feed their families, 'runaway villages' in China that take up arms to resist corrupt officials, and Mexican migrants who, having exited in show more desperation, return from abroad to transform their communities; Little-known transnational agrarian move. show lessTags
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