Development and Spread of Semi-dwarf Varieties of Wheat and Rice in the United States
Author : Dana G. Dalrymple
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Rice
ISBN :
Author : Dana G. Dalrymple
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Rice
ISBN :
Author : Dana G. Dalrymple
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Rice
ISBN :
Author : Dana G. Dalrymple
Publisher :
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Dana G. Dalrymple
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Crop yields
ISBN : 9711041596
Rice and rice breeding; Development of high-yielding rice varieties; Rice varieties and area; Summary of area estimates.
Author : Dana G. Dalrymple
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Agricultural assistance
ISBN :
Author : Dana G. Dalrymple
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Agricultural assistance
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release :
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher :
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : John H. Perkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195110137
During the last 100 years, the worldwide yields of cereal grains, such as wheat and rice, have increased dramatically. Since the 1950s, developments in plant breeding science have been heralded as a "Green Revolution" in modern agriculture. But what factors have enabled and promoted thesetechnical changes? And what are the implications for the future of agriculture? This new book uses a framework of political ecology and environmental history to explore the "Green Revolution's" emergence during the 20th century in the United States, Mexico, India, and Britain. It argues that thenational security planning efforts of each nation were the most important forces promoting the development and spread of the "Green Revolution"; when viewed in the larger scheme, this period can be seen as the latest chapter in the long history of wheat use among humans, which dates back to theneolithic revolution. Efforts to reform agriculture and mitigate some of the harsh environmental and social consequences of the "Green Revolution" have generally been insensitive to the deeply embedded nature of high yielding agriculture in human ecology and political affairs. This important insightchallenges those involved in agriculture reform to make productivity both sustainable and adequate for a growing human population.