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- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (264 pages) :) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Culture of the land : a series in the new agrarianism
- Uniform Title
- Violence of the Green Revolution (Online)
- Culture of the land.
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- Alternative Title
- Violence of the Green Revolution (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: Penang, Malaysia : Third World Network, [1991].
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Science and politics in the Green Revolution -- 2. 'Miracle seeds' and the destruction of genetic diversity -- 3. Chemical fertilizers and soil fertility -- 4. Intensive irrigation, large dams and water conflicts -- 5. The Political and cultural costs of the Green Revolution -- 6. Pepsico for peace? -- 7. The seed and the spinning wheel : the political ecology of technological change.
- OCLC
- ssj0001619469
- Author
Shiva, Vandana.
- Title
The Violence of the Green Revolution [electronic resource] : Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics / Vandana Shiva.
- Imprint
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Culture of the land : a series in the new agrarianism
Culture of the land.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Project Muse.
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Print version: 9780813166544