Ever since Hightower: The politics of agricultural research activism in the molecular age

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 275-283

  Buttel, Frederick H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Agricultural science and technology; Jim Hightower; Land grant universities; Productivist ideology; Public agricultural research

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 29144477212     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-005-6043-3     Document Type: Review

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