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Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa

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Availability:In StockContributor:Aaron EddensPublish date:2024-03-26Pages:206
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520395305ISBN-10:520395301UPC:9780520395305Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:United States, Modern, DevelopmentBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC2T11T6BK
In Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past--and future--of global agriculture. Eddens connects today's efforts to cultivate a "Green Revolution in Africa" to a history of American projects that introduced capitalist agriculture across the Global South. Expansive in scope, this book draws on archival records of the earliest Green Revolution projects in Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as interviews at development institutions and agribusinesses working to deliver genetically modified crops to millions of small-scale farmers across Africa. From the offices of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the halls of the world's largest agricultural biotechnology companies to field trials of hybrid maize in Kenya, Eddens shows how the Green Revolution fails to address global inequalities. Seeding Empire insists that eradicating hunger in a world of climate crisis demands thinking beyond the Green Revolution.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520395305ISBN-10:520395301UPC:9780520395305Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:United States, Modern, DevelopmentBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC2T11T6BK
Aaron Eddens is an American Studies scholar and Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University.
Publisher: University of California Press

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