Geopolitics and the Green Revolution
Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 January 1998
- ISBN 9780195110135
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 242x161x23 mm
- Weight 594 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, line figures 0
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Short description:
Geopolitics and the Green Revolution explores why four different countries (USA, India, Britain, and Mexico) each sought to develop high yielding wheat production. National security concerns and management of foreign exchange were prime motivators of the new technologies, a relationship that has not been previously developed in studies of agricultural modernization. Future reform efforts in agriculture will be affected by this history.
MoreLong description:
Cereal grains like wheat and rice are important, because they are the basis of most food supplies. Yields of such crops have increased dramatically during the past 100 years and especially since 1950, leading to what was often called the Green Revolution. This book examines why the United States, India, Britain and Mexico each sought to develop high yield wheat production. Although the increase in yield has been attributed to plant breeding science, security concerns and management of foreign exchange were prime motivators of the new technologies. This relationship has not been previously developed in studies of agricultural modernization, and will plague future efforts to make agriculture equitable and sustainable.
'...an important book on the development of wheat breeding in the United States, Great Britain, India and Mexico during the 20th century...The book's strength is its descriptive power, especially in intellectual hisotr...Throughout, Perkins provides his readers with an excellent introduction to a variety of complex topics...'
Table of Contents:
Political Ecology and Yield Transformation
Wheat, People, and Plant Breeding
Wheat Breeding: Coalescence of a Modern Science, 1900-1939
Plant Breeding in its Institutional and Political Economic Setting, 1900-1940
The Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico: The New International Politics for Plant Breeding, 1941-1945
Hunger, Overpopulation, and Natural Security: A New Strategic Theory for Plant Breeding, 1945-1956
Wheat Breeding and the Exercise of American Power, 1940-1970
Wheat Breeding and the Consolidation of Indian Autonomy, 1940-1970
Wheat Breeding and the Reconstruction of Post-Imperial Britain, 1935-1954
Science and the Green Revolution, 1945-1975
Epilogue: Implications of History the Future
