Beyond the Green Revolution: The Ecology and Politics of Global Agricultural Development
Kenneth A. Dahlberg (Ed.)
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Paperback. Editor(s): Dahlberg, Kenneth A. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TVB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 421.
This book, which is the result of an intellectual odyssey, began as an attempt to explore and map the environmental and cross-cultural dimensions of the continuing spread of the green revolution-that package of high-yielding varieties of grain, fertilizers, irrigation, and pesticides that constitutes the core of modern industrial agriculture. In the process of traversing the terrain of several intellectual traditions and cutting through various disciplinary forests and thickets, a number of striking observations were made-all leading to two sober- ing conclusions. First, most intellectual maps dealing with agriculture fail to recognize it as the basic interface between human societies and ... Read more
This book, which is the result of an intellectual odyssey, began as an attempt to explore and map the environmental and cross-cultural dimensions of the continuing spread of the green revolution-that package of high-yielding varieties of grain, fertilizers, irrigation, and pesticides that constitutes the core of modern industrial agriculture. In the process of traversing the terrain of several intellectual traditions and cutting through various disciplinary forests and thickets, a number of striking observations were made-all leading to two sober- ing conclusions. First, most intellectual maps dealing with agriculture fail to recognize it as the basic interface between human societies and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
422g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461329121
SKU
V9781461329121
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