Who controls the seeds, controls life: an approach to transgenics in Colombia

Abstract

The article explains how, from the Western perspective, seeds have been conceived as an “object” that can be modified in a laboratory and marketed in the global agro-industry market, generating a set of reflections on the “promises” of eradicate hunger in the world through the massive production of food. Finally, the case of transgenic seeds in Colombia from 2002 to 2018 is put into context from an empirical reference. For the collection, analysis and systematization of information, a mixed approach methodology was used, highlighting the inductive conditions provided by the source documents. primary, secondary, and tertiary, as well as the statistical results of the review of databases and institutional reports. Among the main results, the milestones of transgenic seeds in the world are exposed, as well as the data of transgenics in Colombia. In conclusion, this study is expected to be a contribution to the discussion on the importance of the geopolitics of biodiversity and the geopolitics of seeds as analytical categories that allow us to understand one of the current international power relations for access, use and control of natural resources, as well as the impacts of transgenics on the cultural and biological diversity of Latin American countries.