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The Violence of the Green Revolution : Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics / Vandana Shiva.

Por: Idioma: Inglés Series Culture of the landEditor: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2016]Fecha de copyright: ©2016Descripción: 264 pages : illustrations, maps, chartsTipo de contenido:
  • text
Tipo de medio:
  • unmediated
Tipo de soporte:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780813166544
Materia(s): Clasificación:
  • 333.7609545
Recursos en línea:
Contenidos:
Introduction -- 1. Science and politics in the Green Revolution -- 2. 'Miracle seeds' and the destruction of genetic diversity -- 3. Chemical fertilizers and soil fertility -- 4. Intensive irrigation, large dams and water conflicts -- 5. The Political and cultural costs of the Green Revolution -- 6. Pepsico for peace? -- 7. The seed and the spinning wheel : the political ecology of technological change.
Resumen: The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes a magnifying glass to the effects of the Green Revolution in India, examining the devastating effects of monoculture and commercial agriculture and revealing the nuanced relationship between ecological destruction and poverty. In this classic work, the influential activist and scholar also looks to the future as she examines new developments in gene technology.
Copias
Tipo de ítem Biblioteca Colección Clasificación Copia Estado Código de barras
Libro Biblioteca Colchagua Colección General 333.7609545 S558v 2016 1 Disponible 35672006850
Libro Biblioteca Colchagua Colección General 333.7609545 S558v 2016 2 Disponible 35672006842

Originally published: Penang, Malaysia : Third World Network, [1991].

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- 1. Science and politics in the Green Revolution -- 2. 'Miracle seeds' and the destruction of genetic diversity -- 3. Chemical fertilizers and soil fertility -- 4. Intensive irrigation, large dams and water conflicts -- 5. The Political and cultural costs of the Green Revolution -- 6. Pepsico for peace? -- 7. The seed and the spinning wheel : the political ecology of technological change.

The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes a magnifying glass to the effects of the Green Revolution in India, examining the devastating effects of monoculture and commercial agriculture and revealing the nuanced relationship between ecological destruction and poverty. In this classic work, the influential activist and scholar also looks to the future as she examines new developments in gene technology.

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