The Violence of the Green Revolution : Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics / Vandana Shiva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shiva, Vandana, author.

Series:

Culture of the land.

Culture of the land : a series in the new agrarianism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Green Revolution--Social aspects--India--Punjab.

Green Revolution.

Green Revolution--Environmental aspects--India--Punjab.

Green Revolution--India--Punjab.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2016]

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Originally published: Penang, Malaysia : Third World Network, [1991].

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813166803

0813166802

9780813166810

0813166810

OCLC:

935112528