TY  - BOOK
AU  - Erasga, Dennis. 
TI  - From grain to nature : : a rice-based history of Philippine environmental discourse, 1946-2005 / 
SN  - 9789719702450
AV  - SB 191.R5 .Er14 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Quezon City
PB  - Vibal Foundation
KW  - Rice
KW  - Philippines
KW  - sears
N1  - Includes index
N2  - From Grain to Nature is an attempt to narrate an "alternative version" of the origin of Philippine environmental discourse via the social biography of its most important cultural crop-rice. By tracing the discursive events that led to the genetic evolution of this crop, Dennis Erasga weaves a story of rice using a triptych of images-rice as a political grain, a scientific seed, and a virtual metaphor of nature-each accompanied by three distinct yet overlapping discourses, creating a new level of consciousness that problematizes the relationship of humans and nature in pursuit of a national development agenda. (Source: http://www.vibebookstore.com)
ER  -