Technological and social dimensions of the green revolution : connecting pasts and futures

Author(s)

• Basu, Pratyusha
• Scholten, Bruce A. (Bruce Allen)

Bibliographic Information

Technological and social dimensions of the green revolution : connecting pasts and futures

edited by Pratyusha Basu and Bruce A. Scholten

Routledge, 2013

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Rising concerns about agricultural productivity and food security in rapidly changing economic and environmental contexts have led to renewed interest in agricultural development. But the extent to which new policies and programs will enable socially just and environmentally sustainable futures for rural communities remains a matter of intense debate. This book contributes to such debates by critically examining the intersection of agricultural histories, heterogeneous social contexts and new technological developments in rural communities across the Global South. It shows how experiences of the previous Green Revolution can inform new agricultural programs and enable equitable and participatory development in rural places. Through close engagement with rural communities, this book ensures that rural voices become part of the debate on agricultural development and suggests pathways for building on the gains of the Green Revolution without necessarily repeating its problematic social, technological and environmental aspects. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Technological and social dimensions of the Green Revolution: connecting pasts and futures 2. Selling Guatemala's next Green Revolution: agricultural modernization and the politics of GM maize regulation 3. Evaluating the Green Revolution after a decade: a Swaziland case study 4. Malawi's agricultural input subsidy: study of a Green Revolution-style strategy for food security 5. Challenges for under-utilized crops illustrated by ricebean (Vigna umbellata) in India and Nepal 6. Crop-livestock systems in rural development: linking India's Green and White Revolutions 7. Growing inequality: agricultural revolutions and the political ecology of rural development

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB15533233
• ISBN:
  • 9780415815185
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Abingdon, Oxon
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 95 p., [1]p. of plates
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 307.1412
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Rural development -- Environmental aspects
  • LCSH : Rural development
  • LCSH : Sustainable development