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

ISBN-13: 9781138215290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 270 str.

Jonathan Harwood

Opis

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 19^th 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."

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Origins of Peasant-Friendly Research in Germany  2. The Movement for Peasant-Friendly Plant-Breeding, 1880-1905  3. Research, Development and Extension at the South German Stations  4. Success Breeds Trouble: the Controversy over Public-Sector Breeding, 1902-1933  5. The Fate of Peasant-Friendly Breeding under National Socialism  6. The Green Revolution and its Critics  7. Reforming the Revolution: Peasant-Friendly Innovation, 1970 -2010  8. Three Conclusions

O autorze

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