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The Violence of the Green Revolution

Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics

Vandana Shiva

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Ratgeber / Natur

Beschreibung

The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement—unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes a magnifying glass to the effects of the Green Revolution in India, examining the devastating effects of monoculture and commercial agriculture and revealing the nuanced relationship between ecological destruction and poverty. In this classic work, the influential activist and scholar also looks to the future as she examines new developments in gene technology.

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corporate agriculture, biotechnology, gmo foods, agricultural history, biotech revolution, agricultural development, environmentalism, sustainability, agricultural activism, food production, big ag, crop management, genetically modified crops