Privatization of Information and Agricutlural Industrialization

Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization identifies the basis and implications of the ongoing shift from public to private sector control of agricultural information. Privatization of information raises meaningful social, economic, and environmental concerns deserving of immediate attention by analysts, advocates, policy makers, and those with a direct economic stake in agriculture. The objectives of the book are to elucidate economic processes associated with agricultural information; describe historical and emerging structures and patterns of institutional relations in agriculture; and define economic, social, and environmental implications of contemporary dynamics of public-private relations specific to agricultural information.