TRANSGENIC BIOTECHNOLOGY AND AGRO-FOOD RESISTANCES

Abstract

Environmental education promotes knowledge about the damage caused by the cultivation, competition and consumption of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), this theory strengthens studies on alternate rurality by linking the different actors that participate in Agri-Food Systems (SAA) global. The present work explains how various structures of the local SAA are being modified, because they move towards complex networks at a global level, related to an agrifood chain divided into various particular methods of industrial appropriation and substitution, this is a complex model that seeks promotion the interests of a certain group of transnational corporations (CTN), a process which relies on GMOs who progressively modify the face of production, distribution and consumption in the SAA, in contrast, an approach to agrifood resistance and Finally, it is briefly exemplified with corn in Mexico as the center of origin, its native seeds are antagonistic to transgenic biotechnology. Resistances are established from environmental education to agri-food communities, with the latent concern to hire new modes of production that break with the logic inherent in globalization.

Keywords

• transgenic biotechnology
• transnationals
• resistances
• native seeds
• agri-food communities