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Europe's Green Revolution and Others Since: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) - Hardcover

Harwood, Jonathan

 
9780415598682: Europe's Green Revolution and Others Since: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415598680 ISBN 13: 9780415598682
Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

How best to foster agricultural development in the Third World has long been a subject of debate and from a European perspective the persistent failure to design peasant-friendly technology is puzzling. From the late 19th century, for example, various western European countries also underwent ‘green revolutions’ in which systematic attempts were made to promote the adoption of technological innovation by peasant-farmers.

This book focuses on the development of public-sector plant-breeding in Germany from the late nineteenth century through its fate under National Socialism. Harwood uses this historical case study in order to argue that peasant-friendly research has an important role to play in future Green Revolutions.

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About the Author

Jonathan Harwood is Emeritus Professor if the History of Science and Technology at the University of Manchester,UK.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415598680
ISBN 13 
9780415598682
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
270