Europe's Green Revolution and Others Since: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding: 57 - Rilegato

Harwood, Jonathan

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ISBN 10: 0415598680 ISBN 13: 9780415598682

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull'autore

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415598680
• ISBN 13: 9780415598682
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 270
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania