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Seeds of Power tells the story of Argentina’s swift agrarian transformation based on the early adoption and intensive implementation of genetically modified (GM) soybeans.

Argentina is the third largest global grower and exporter of GM crops. Its soybeans—which have been modified to tolerate being sprayed with herbicides—now cover half of the country's arable land and represent a third of its total exports.

While soy has brought about modernization and economic growth, it has also created tremendous social and ecological harm: rural displacement, concentration of landownership, food insecurity, deforestation, violence, and the negative health effects of toxic agrochemical exposure.

I explore why Argentines largely support GM crops despite the widespread social and ecological harm they cause.

I reveal how state and corporate actors deploy narratives of economic growth, scientific expertise, and national identity as a way to elicit compliance among the country’s most vulnerable rural residents.

I thus show how GM soy operates as a tool of power to obtain consent, to quell potential dissent, and to legitimize injustice.