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The Violence of the Green Revolution : Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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| Colección: | Culture of the land.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 490 | 0 | |a Culture of the land : a series in the new agrarianism | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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| 520 | |a 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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