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Seeds of change : the green revolution and development in the 1970's
- Title
- Seeds of change : the green revolution and development in the 1970's / Lester R. Brown ; foreword by Eugene R. Black.
- Author
- Brown, Lester R. (Lester Russell), 1934-
- Publication
- New York : Published for the Overseas Development Council by Praeger, [1970]
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- Additional Authors
- Overseas Development Council, sponsoring body.
- Description
- xv, 205 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- Study of the applications of technological change to agriculture in developing countries (green revolution), with particular reference to trends in international cooperation for rural development - covers improvements in cultivation techniques (incl. Irrigation), increasing productivity, the role of USA and multinational enterprises in transferring technology, marketing problems, agrarian reforms, trade agreements, the eradication of hunger, etc. References and statistical tables.
- Subject
- Food supply
- Agriculture > Economic aspects
- Green Revolution
- Agriculture
- Agriculture
- Food Supply
- farming (activity or system)
- diet
- agriculture (discipline)
- Agriculture > Economic aspects
- Food supply
- Green Revolution
- Groene revolutie
- technological change
- agriculture
- green revolution
- trend
- international cooperation
- rural development
- cultivation technique
- irrigation
- productivity
- role of USA
- multinational enterprise
- marketing
- agrarian reform
- trade agreement
- hunger
- statistical table
- Agricultural development
- Food and nutrition
- Grains
- Underdeveloped areas
- INNOVACIONES AGRICOLAS
- REVOLUCION VERDE
- changement technologique
- révolution verte
- tendance
- coopération internationale
- développement rural
- technique de culture
- productivité
- rôle des Etats-Unis
- entreprise multinationale
- réforme agraire
- accord commercial
- faim
- tableau statistique
- cambio tecnológico
- agricultura
- revolución verde
- tendencia
- cooperación internacional
- desarrollo rural
- técnica de cultivo
- riego
- productividad
- papel de los EUA
- empresa multinacional
- mercadotecnia
- reforma agraria
- convenio comercial
- hambre
- cuadros estadísticos
- developing countries
- pays en développement
- países en desarrollo
- Genre/Form
- Informational works
- reference.
- Informational works.
- Documents d'information.
- référence bibliographique.
- referencia.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 197-200.
- Contents
- pt. 1. The technological breakthrough. The new seeds -- New irrigation strategies -- Farming around the calendar -- The yield takeoff -- pt. 2. Transferring technology. The research dividend -- The multinational corporation -- The role of the United States government -- pt. 3. Second-generation problems. Seeds of instability -- Overloaded marketing systems -- Other clouds on the horizon -- pt. 4. Solving urban problems in the countryside. The new seeds and the cities -- Rising pressures for agricultural reform -- pt. 5. Population, employment, and hunger. Redefining the population problem -- Toward the eradication of hunger -- New protein sources -- pt. 6. Preview of the 1970's. The self-sufficiency syndrome -- The new seeds and the American farmer -- Rising agricultural protectionism -- Agenda for the 1970's.
- LCCN
- 77109015
- OCLC
- ocm00061567
- 61567
- SCSB-219485
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library