Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility: The Agrochemical-Gmo Industry in Hawai'i

Andrea Noelani Brower

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How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry's power.

Hawaiʻi is a primary site for development of herbicide-resistant corn seed and, until recently, was host to more experimental field trials of genetically engineered crops than anywhere else in the world. It is also a node of powerful resistance. While documentaries and popular news stories have profiled the biotech seed industry in Hawaiʻi, Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility is the first book to detail the social and historical conditions by which the chemical-seed oligopoly came to occupy the most geographically isolated islands in the world and made the soils of Hawaiʻi the epicenter of agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology testing.

Andrea Brower, an activist-scholar from Hawaiʻi, examines the consequences related to genetically engineered seed development for Hawaiʻi's people and the social movement that has risen in response. With insights beyond the islands, Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility illuminates why visions for a radically better world must be expanded by intersectional and systemically oriented movements.


Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 12/01/2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781952271694

About the Author
Andrea Noelani Brower is an activist-scholar from Kaua'i. Her scholarship is rooted in collective movements for justice, equality, liberation, and ecological regeneration. She teaches in sociology, environmental studies, and leadership studies at Gonzaga University.