Social movements and techno-democracy: Reclaiming the genetic commons

Food for the Few: Neoliberal Globalism and Biotechnology in Latin America

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 267-288

  Poitras, Manuel ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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