Geopolitics and the green revolution : wheat, genes, and the cold war /

Perkins explores why four countries 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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Perkins, John H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Temas:
Wheat > Breeding.
Wheat > Breeding > Government policy.
Wheat.
Wheat trade.
Green Revolution.
National security.
Cold War.
Blé > Commerce.
Révolution verte.
Guerre froide.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
Cereais.
Inovacoes tecnicas na agricultura.
Plantas cultivadas (melhoramento e genetica)
Produtos agricolas (aspectos economicos)
Politica agricola.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Political Ecology and the Yield Transformation
  • 2. Wheat, People, and Plant Breeding
  • 3. Wheat Breeding: Coalescence of a Modern Science, 1900-1959
  • 4. Plant Breeding in Its Institutional and Political Economic Setting, 1900-1940
  • 5. The Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico: The New International Politics of Plant Breeding, 1941-1945
  • 6. Hunger, Overpopulation, and National Security: A New Strategic Theory for Plant Breeding, 1945-1956
  • 7. Wheat Breeding and the Exercise of American Power, 1940-1970
  • 8. Wheat Breeding and the Consolidation of Indian Autonomy, 1940-1970
  • 9. Wheat Breeding and the Reconstruction of Postimperial Britain, 1935-1954
  • 10. Science and the Green Revolution, 1945-1975.

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