Making the Green Revolution : Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia /

"In November 2017, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at its headquarters outside Palmira, Colombia. As an important research center of the so-called Green Revolution in agricultural science and technologies, CIAT emphasizes its contribu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lorek, Timothy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical.
Sugarcane industry.
Politics and government.
Green Revolution.
Globalization.
Agriculture > Research.
Agricultural assistance, American.
Cold War.
Globalization > Colombia > Cauca River Valley.
Sugarcane industry > Colombia > Cauca River Valley > History > 20th century.
Green Revolution > Colombia > Cauca River Valley > History > 20th century.
Agricultural assistance, American > Colombia > Cauca River Valley > History > 20th century.
Agricultural development projects > Political aspects > Colombia > Cauca River Valley.
Agriculture > Research > Colombia > Cauca River Valley > History > 20th century.
Colombia > Cauca River Valley.
Colombia.
Colombia > Politics and government > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"In November 2017, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at its headquarters outside Palmira, Colombia. As an important research center of the so-called Green Revolution in agricultural science and technologies, CIAT emphasizes its contributions to sustainability, food security, gender equity, inclusive markets, and resilient, climate-smart agriculture. Yet these terms hardly describe the Cauca Valley where CIAT is physically located, a place that has been transformed into an industrial monoculture of sugarcane where thirteen Colombian corporations oversee the vast majority of this valley's famously fertile soil. This exemplifies the paradox Timothy W. Lorek describes: an international research center emphasizing small-scale and sustainable agricultural systems sited conspicuously on a landscape otherwise dominated by a large-scale corporate sugarcane industry"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (342 pages): illustrations, maps ;
ISBN:9781469673844

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