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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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| Collection: | Culture of the land.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.