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

Join us and Andrea Brower to learn about her book Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possbility: The Agrochemical-GMO Industry in Hawai'i!

Sunday, June 4th at 5pm at Auntie's Bookstore (402 W Main Ave).

This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP at https://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/agrochemical-gmo-industry-hawaii-andrea-brower!

About the book

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.

About the author

Andrea is an activist and scholar from the island of Kaua'i, where she's been active in movements for environmental justice, food sovereignty, and decolonization. She is the principal instructor in the Solidarity & Social Justice program in the Department of Sociology at Gonzaga University.