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Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (4): 585–587.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Emily M. Hill Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China . By Sigrid Schmalzer . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2016 . 320 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2263-3015-0 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 585 India...
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Peasant Friendly Plant Breeding and the Early Years of the Green Revolution in Mexico
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 384–410.
Published: 01 July 2009
...JONATHAN HARWOOD Abstract Despite their success in boosting cereals production overall, the Green Revolution programs of the 1950s and 1960s were often criticized for failing to achieve their declared aim of alleviating world hunger. Most critics argued that the programs had produced a technology...
View articletitled, Peasant Friendly Plant Breeding and the Early Years of the <span class="search-highlight">Green</span> <span class="search-highlight">Revolution</span> in Mexico
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Guatemala’s Green Revolution: Synthetic Fertilizer, Public Health, and Economic Autonomy in the Mayan Highland
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 283–322.
Published: 01 July 2009
...DAVID CAREY, JR. Abstract Despite extensive literature both supporting and critiquing the Green Revolution, surprisingly little attention has been paid to synthetic fertilizers’health and environmental effects or indigenous farmers’ perspectives. The introduction of agrochemicals in the mid...
View articletitled, Guatemala’s <span class="search-highlight">Green</span> <span class="search-highlight">Revolution</span>: Synthetic Fertilizer, Public Health, and Economic Autonomy in the Mayan Highland
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Re-thinking Economic Development: The Green Revolution, Agrarian Science, and Transformation in Bangladesh
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 284–285.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Eric Strahorn Re-thinking Economic Development: The Green Revolution, Agrarian Science, and Transformation in Bangladesh . By Fujita Koichi . Kyoto : Kyoto University Press , 2010 . 316 pp., $89.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-920901-16-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011...
View articletitled, Re-thinking Economic Development: The <span class="search-highlight">Green</span> <span class="search-highlight">Revolution</span>, Agrarian Science, and Transformation in Bangladesh
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The State, Scientists, and Staple Crops: Agricultural “Modernization” in Pre–Green Revolution India
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 201–223.
Published: 01 April 2013
... research institutes, the Indian Agricultural Research Institute and the Central Rice Research Institute. The article revises the argument that scientific research was of little importance to India's agricultural development policy before the coming of the capital- and chemical-intensive Green Revolution...
View articletitled, The State, Scientists, and Staple Crops: Agricultural “Modernization” in Pre–<span class="search-highlight">Green</span> <span class="search-highlight">Revolution</span> India
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Seeds of Sustainability: Lessons from the Birthplace of the Green Revolution in Agriculture
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 562–563.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Sterling Evans Seeds of Sustainability: Lessons from the Birthplace of the Green Revolution in Agriculture . Edited by Pamela A. Matson . Washington, DC : Island Press , 2012 . 332 pp., $45.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-59726-525-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...
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Roundtable: New Narratives of the Green Revolution
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 397–422.
Published: 01 July 2017
.... India’s Green Revolution: Economic Gains and Political Costs . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2015 . Frankel, Francine R. India’s Political Economy: The Gradual Revolution . 2nd ed. New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2009 . Fullilove, Courtney . The Profit...
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Powerful Disruptions: Braceros, Campesinos, and the Green Revolution in Mexico, 1940–1965
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 472–499.
Published: 01 July 2021
...José Miguel Chávez Leyva Abstract This research looks at the Bracero Program and the Green Revolution in relation to their impact on rural peasant farmers in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. The Bracero Program and the Mexican Agricultural Program, which began the Green Revolution, both arose from...
View articletitled, Powerful Disruptions: Braceros, Campesinos, and the <span class="search-highlight">Green</span> <span class="search-highlight">Revolution</span> in Mexico, 1940–1965
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Beyond Borlaug’s Shadow: Octavio Paz, Indian Farmers, and the Challenge of Narrating the Green Revolution
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (4): 576–608.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Gabriela Soto Laveaga Abstract Known as “Mexican seeds,” the high-yielding wheat seeds that helped launch the Green Revolution performed a seemingly impossible act: they explicitly referenced Mexico yet at the same time shed themselves of any affiliation with Mexican expertise and domestic science...
View articletitled, Beyond Borlaug’s Shadow: Octavio Paz, Indian Farmers, and the Challenge of Narrating the <span class="search-highlight">Green</span> <span class="search-highlight">Revolution</span>
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Winds of Change: Plant Pathology, Transnational Wheat Rust, and the Environmental Origins of the Green Revolution, 1904–1953
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 273–310.
Published: 01 May 2023
... breeding program, and wheat became the centerpiece of the Green Revolution beginning in the 1960s. This article reveals that the environmental origins of the MAP's wheat program lay in combating a plant disease fungus commonly known as wheat rust, which harmed farmers in both northern Mexico and the US...
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Agriculture's Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's Green Revolution
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 131–133.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Gillian McGillivray [email protected] Agriculture's Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's Green Revolution . By Thomas D. Rogers . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2022 . 306 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 9781469670454 . Copyright © 2024...
View articletitled, Agriculture's Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's <span class="search-highlight">Green</span> <span class="search-highlight">Revolution</span>
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With and against the Grain: The Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center and Modest Narratives of Green Revolution in Taiwan, 1963–2002
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 448–477.
Published: 01 August 2023
... Taiwan Southeast Asia Green Revolution plant breeding Cold War I n may 1972, Robert F. Chandler, director of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), wrote to Peter Oram, secretary of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), concerning the eligibility of the Asian Vegetable Research...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 414–447.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to the call for new international research and development efforts while avoiding the limitations of predecessor programs associated with the Green Revolution. It highlights the challenges inherent in this work by focusing on ambitions for—and challenges to—providing standardized information about samples...
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View articletitled, Diversifying Description: Sweet Potato Science and International Agricultural Research after the <span class="search-highlight">Green</span> <span class="search-highlight">Revolution</span>
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The Green Revolution, Plant Breeding, and Wide Adaptation: Marci Baranski's The Globalization of Wheat
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 702–707.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Kapil Subramanian Works Cited Aga Aniket . “ Farm Protests in India Are Writing the Green Revolution's Obituary .” Scientific American , January 24 , 2021 . https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/farm-protests-in-india-are-writing-the-green-revolutions-obituary...
View articletitled, The <span class="search-highlight">Green</span> <span class="search-highlight">Revolution</span>, Plant Breeding, and Wide Adaptation: Marci Baranski's The Globalization of Wheat
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Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Ryan Nehring Seeding Empire will appeal to a wide audience but for different reasons. Agricultural historians might be tired of the too-often-told origin stories of the Green Revolution. For them, chapters 4 and 5 offer a refreshing, if terrifying, account of how the “new” twenty-first-century...
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On Green Revolutions and Golden Beans: Memories and Metaphors of Costa Rican Coffee Co-op Founders
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 538–565.
Published: 01 October 2014
... were suggested by Garin Burbank , “Agrarian Socialism in Saskatchewan and Oklahoma: Short-Run Radicalism, Long-Run Conservatism,” Agricultural History 51 ( Jan. 1977 ): 173 – 80 . On Green Revolutions and Golden Beans: Memories and Metaphors of Costa Rican Coffee Co-op Founders LOWELL...
View articletitled, On <span class="search-highlight">Green</span> <span class="search-highlight">Revolutions</span> and Golden Beans: Memories and Metaphors of Costa Rican Coffee Co-op Founders
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Making Green Revolutions: Kansas Farms, Recovery, and the New Agriculture, 1918–1981
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 342–368.
Published: 01 July 2017
... ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2006); Frank Uekötter , “Why Panaceas Work: Recasting Science, Knowledge, and Fertilizer Interests in German Agriculture,” Agricultural History 88 (Winter 2014 ): 68 – 86 . For work that expands the Green Revolution’s meaning and chronology, see...
View articletitled, Making <span class="search-highlight">Green</span> <span class="search-highlight">Revolutions</span>: Kansas Farms, Recovery, and the New Agriculture, 1918–1981
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The Puerto Rican Connection: Recovering the “Cultural Triangle” in Global Histories of Agricultural Development
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 108–140.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Timothy W. Lorek Abstract This essay revisits a 1947 article about race and colonial history in the Americas to uncover overlooked geographic and intellectual components of the emerging Green Revolution in agricultural technologies then in formation. It argues that Puerto Rico and the island’s...
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An Unremembered Diversity: Mixed Husbandry and the American Grasslands
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 352–383.
Published: 01 July 2009
...KENNETH SYLVESTER; GEOFF CUNFER Abstract The Green Revolution of the 1960s brought about a dramatic rise in global crop yields. But, as most observers acknowledge, this has come at a considerable cost to biodiversity. Plant breeding, synthetic fertilizers, and mechanization steadily narrowed...
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Natural Partners: Chilean Nitrates and the Rise of Intensive Agriculture in the US South, 1900–1945
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 48–83.
Published: 01 February 2023
... in the early twentieth century. It also traces how the exchange of agricultural commodities and knowledge between Chile and the United States contributed to the emergence of intensive agriculture and what observers would later call the “green revolution.” [email protected] Copyright © 2023...
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