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Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia - Couverture souple

Lorek, Timothy W.

 
9781469673813: Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1469673819 ISBN 13 : 9781469673813
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2023

Synopsis

In November 2017, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at its headquarters outside Palmira, Colombia. As an important research center of the so-called Green Revolution in agricultural science and technologies, CIAT emphasizes its contributions to sustainability, food security, gender equity, inclusive markets, and resilient, climate-smart agriculture. Yet these terms hardly describe the Cauca Valley where CIAT is physically located, a place that has been transformed into an industrial monoculture of sugarcane where thirteen Colombian corporations oversee the vast majority of this valley's famously fertile soil. This exemplifies the paradox Timothy W. Lorek describes in Making the Green Revolution: an international research center emphasizing small-scale and sustainable agricultural systems sited conspicuously on a landscape otherwise dominated by a large-scale corporate sugarcane industry.

Utilizing archives in Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the United States, Lorek tracks the paradoxical but intertwined twentieth-century processes that produced both CIAT and sugar in the Cauca Valley. This history reveals how Colombians contributed to the rise of a global Green Revolution and how that international process in turn intersected with a complex and long-running rural conflict in Colombia.

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À propos de l'auteur

Timothy W. Lorek is assistant professor of history at the College of St. Scholastica.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469673819
ISBN 13 
9781469673813
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Broché
Nombre de pages
342
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