The Violence of the Green Revolution : Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shiva, Vandana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Series:Culture of the land.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Green Revolution > Social aspects > India > Punjab.
Green Revolution > Environmental aspects > India > Punjab.
Green Revolution > India > Punjab.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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