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Food, Farms and Solidarity makes valuable contributions to academic scholarship within social movement studies, food studies, and political ecology, though the book’s most important impact is its integration of analysis of and analysis for food activists.

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  • In Food, Farms and Solidarity, anthropologist Chaia Heller investigates the Confédération Paysanne (CP), a union of French paysans who led a campaign against genetically modified organisms (GMOs) that expanded the scope of public debates about GMOs and played a pivotal role in their prohibition throughout Europe

  • When public debates about GMOs erupted in Europe in the early 1990s, discussions revolved around potential risks GMOs pose to human and ecological health

  • When CP began organizing anti-GMO demonstrations in the mid-1990s, they broadened the terms of debate to include GMOs’ impacts on producers, and in doing so they expanded the category of experts to include farmers

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Farms & Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops Chaia Heller In Food, Farms and Solidarity, anthropologist Chaia Heller investigates the Confédération Paysanne (CP), a union of French paysans (peasants) who led a campaign against genetically modified organisms (GMOs) that expanded the scope of public debates about GMOs and played a pivotal role in their prohibition throughout Europe.

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