If you’re interested in reading more about the past, present, and future of seeds and the seed industry, check out this list of books:
- American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace
John C. Culver and John Hyde, New York, Norton (2000) - Biotechnology
Martha Newell McGloughlin & Teagace, Dublin, Ireland (2000) - Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food Safety and the Environment
Thomas R. DeGregori, The CATO Institute (2002) - Concise Encyclopedia and Crop Improvement: Institutions, Persons,
Theories, Methods, and Histories
Rolf Schlegel, Haworth Press, New York, London, Oxford, USA (2007) - Lords of the Harvest
Daniel Charles, Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, MA (2001) - The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger
Leon Hesser, Durban House Press - The Master of Seeds-Life and Work of Claude Hope
Ricardo Arias Martinez, Burpee Books (1992) - Mendel in the Kitchen
Nina Feroroff, Ph.D., Joseph Henry Press (2004)
A scientist’s view of genetically modified food - Merchants of Grain
Dan Morgan, Viking Press (1972) - People, Plants, and Genes: The Story of Crops and Humanity
Denis J. Murphy, Oxford University Press (2007) - Plant Breeding and Biotechnology
Denis J. Murphy, Cambridge University Press (2007)
Societal Context and the Future of Agriculture - The Politics of Precaution
Robert Paarlberg, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Press (2001)
For the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Genetically modified crops in developing countries - Roswell Garst: A Biography
Harold Lee, Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA - Seed Wars
Keith Aokia, Carolina Academic Press (2008)
Controversies and cases on plant genetic resources and intellectual property - Seeds of Change: Six Plants that Transformed Mankind
Henry Hobhouse (1995) - Starved for Science
Robert Paarlberg, Ph.D.,Harvard University Press (2008)
How biotechnology and its potential benefits to subsistence farmers is being kept out of Africa - The Story of Corn
Betty Fussell, Albert A. Knopf, New York (1992) - The Truth About Organic Foods
Alex Avery, Henderson Communications LLC (2006)