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The violence of the Green Revolution [electronic resource] :Third World agriculture, ecology and politics / Vandana Shiva.

By: Shiva, Vandana [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse [distributor.] | Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Culture of the land: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 2015); Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (264 pages) :) illustrations, maps.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813166810; 0813166810.Subject(s): Green Revolution -- Social aspects -- India -- Punjab | Green Revolution -- Environmental aspects -- India -- Punjab | Green Revolution -- India -- PunjabGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books. DDC classification: 338.1/0954 Online resources: Full text available:
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.
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.
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Originally published: Penang, Malaysia : Third World Network, [1991].

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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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