Geopolitics and the Green Revolution
Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War
During the last 100 years, the worldwide yields of cereal grains, such as wheat and rice, have increased dramatically. Since the 1950s, developments in plant breeding science have been heralded as a Green Revolution in modern agriculture. But what factors have enabled and promoted these technical changes? And what are the implications for the future of agriculture? This new book uses a framework of political ecology and environmental history to explore the Green Revolution's emergence during the 20th century in the United States, Mexico, India, and Britain. It argues that the national security planning efforts of each nation were the most imp…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-535503-1
- EAN: 9780195355031
- Produktnummer: 13792560
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 25'757 KB
- Abbildungen: 21 halftones & line illus.
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