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Author | : Bernhard Glaeser |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2010-11-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136891633 |
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The Green Revolution – the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s – came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for optimal irrigation, intensive use of fertilisers and pesticides; its damaging impact on social structures; and its monoculture approach. The early 1980s saw a concerted approach to many of these criticisms under the auspices of Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). This book, first published in 1987, analyses the recent achievements of the CGIAR and examines the Green Revolution concept in South America, Asia and Africa, from an ‘ecodevelopment’ standpoint, with particular regard to the plight of the rural poor. The work is characterised by a concern for the ecological and social dimensions of agricultural development,which puts the emphasis on culturally compatible, labour absorbing and environmentally sustainable food production which will serve the long term needs of developing countries.
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Download Green Revolution Revisited and the Road Ahead Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Nobel Foundation presents the full text of the article entitled "The Green Revolution Revisited and the Road Ahead," published April 26, 2001. The article highlights the lecture of American microbiologist Norman Borlaug (1914- ), who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in food production and hunger alleviation. His lecture was given on September 8, 2000 as an anniversary lecture at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.
Author | : Entomological Society of America. Special Committee on International Affairs |
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Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Norman Ernest Borlaug |
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Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Agricultural ecology |
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"Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug presented his anniversary lecture at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. An agricultural scientist, Borlaug's work in food production and hunger alleviation was recognized through the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 since, as the Laureate pointed out, there is no Nobel Prize for food and agriculture. In his introduction, Borlaug says he often speculated that if Alfred Nobel had written his will to establish the various prizes and endowed them fifty years earlier, the first prize established would have been for food and agriculture. However, by the time Nobel wrote his will in 1895, there was no serious food production problem haunting Europe like the widespread potato famine in 1845-51, that took the lives of untold millions."--Taken from website - viewed October 12th 2011.
Author | : Joshua Eisenman |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2018-04-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231546750 |
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China’s dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced widespread famine. In this revisionist study, Joshua Eisenman marshals previously inaccessible data to overturn this narrative, showing that the commune modernized agriculture, increased productivity, and spurred an agricultural green revolution that laid the foundation for China’s future rapid growth. Red China’s Green Revolution tells the story of the commune’s origins, evolution, and downfall, demonstrating its role in China’s economic ascendance. After 1970, the commune emerged as a hybrid institution, including both collective and private elements, with a high degree of local control over economic decision but almost no say over political ones. It had an integrated agricultural research and extension system that promoted agricultural modernization and collectively owned local enterprises and small factories that spread rural industrialization. The commune transmitted Mao’s collectivist ideology and enforced collective isolation so it could overwork and underpay its households. Eisenman argues that the commune was eliminated not because it was unproductive, but because it was politically undesirable: it was the post-Mao leadership led by Deng Xiaoping—not rural residents—who chose to abandon the commune in order to consolidate their control over China. Based on detailed and systematic national, provincial, and county-level data, as well as interviews with agricultural experts and former commune members, Red China’s Green Revolution is a comprehensive historical and social scientific analysis that fundamentally challenges our understanding of recent Chinese economic history.
Author | : Brendan Rittenhouse Green |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2020-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108489869 |
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A theoretical analysis and historical investigation of the Cold War nuclear arms race that challenges the nuclear revolution.
Author | : M. R. Vega |
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Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Kenneth Dahlberg |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1461329108 |
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This book, which is the result of an intellectual odyssey, began as an attempt to explore and map the environmental and cross-cultural dimensions of the continuing spread of the green revolution-that package of high-yielding varieties of grain, fertilizers, irrigation, and pesticides that constitutes the core of modern industrial agriculture. In the process of traversing the terrain of several intellectual traditions and cutting through various disciplinary forests and thickets, a number of striking observations were made-all leading to two sober ing conclusions. First, most intellectual maps dealing with agriculture fail to recognize it as the basic interface between human societies and their environment. Because of this, they are little better than the "flat earth" maps of earlier centuries in helping to understand global realities. Second, when agriculture is analyzed from a global perspec tive that takes evolution seriously, one sees that the ecological risks as well as the energy and social costs of modern industrial agriculture make it largely inappropriate for developing countries. Beyond that, one can see a great need within industrialized countries to develop less costly, less risky, and more sustainable agricultural alternatives. Early in the journey it became clear that conventional disciplinary approaches were inadequate to comprehend the scope and diversity of global agriculture and that a new multilevel approach was needed. It also became clear that any new approach would have to try to correct certain Western biases and blind spots.
Author | : Sayed Nader Azam-ali |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2021-06-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9811236461 |
Download Ninth Revolution, The: Transforming Food Systems For Good Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet. In this book, a world leader in agricultural research, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali, proposes a radical transformation of our agrifood system. He argues that agriculture must be understood as part of global biodiversity and that food systems have cultural, nutritional, and social values beyond market price alone. He describes the perilous risks of relying on just four staple crops for most of our food and the consequences of our current agrifood model on human and planetary health.In plain language for the wider public, students, researchers, and policy makers, Azam-Ali envisions the agrifood system as a global public good in which its practitioners include a new and different generation of farmers, its production systems link novel and traditional technologies, and its activities encompass landscapes, urban spaces, and controlled environments. The book concludes with a call to action in which diversification of species, systems, knowledge, cultures, and products all contribute to The Ninth Revolution that will transform food systems for good.Related Link(s)
Author | : Mark Selden |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1315286408 |
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Originally published in the early 1970s, The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China has proved to be one of the most significant and enduring books published in the field. In this new critical edition of that seminal work, Mark Selden revisits the central themes therein and reconsiders them in light of major new theoretical and documentary understandings of the Chinese communist revolution.