ABSTRACT
The production of genetically modified crops continues to rise on a global scale as corporate consolidation of food and agricultural systems continues. Despite claims that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are a solution in the fight against world hunger, the vast majority of GMO crops planted are non-food crops. Increasingly GMOs are being produced on arable land acquired through the ongoing global land grab. In this chapter, I re-read enclosure through the land grab and the production of GMOs as multiple, with specific attention to the enclosure of knowledge production. I argue that the production of GMOs and by extension, their production on large-scale land acquisitions is more than just dispossession of land. Using decolonial theory, I point to universalizing narratives of industrial-capitalist agriculture and suggest that pluriversal thinking is necessary to better understand the impact of enclosures.
