A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution.
The Green Revolution was devised to increase agricultural
production worldwide, particularly in the developing world.
Agriculturalists employed anhydrous ammonia and other fertilizing
agents, mechanical tilling, hybridized seeds, pesticides,
herbicides, and a multitude of other techniques to increase yields
and feed a mushrooming human population that would otherwise suffer
starvation as the world's food supply dwindled. In The Green
Revolution in the Global South: Science, Politics, and Unintended
Consequences, R. Douglas Hurt demonstrates that the Green
Revolution did not turn out as neatly as scientists predicted. When
its methods and products were imported to places like Indonesia and
Nigeria, or even replicated indigenously, the result was a
tumultuous impact on a society's functioning. A range of
factors-including cultural practices, ethnic and religious
barriers, cost and availability of new technologies, climate,
rainfall and aridity, soil quality, the scale of landholdings,
political policies and opportunism, the rise of industrial farms,
civil unrest, indigenous diseases, and corruption-entered into the
Green Revolution calculus, producing a series of unintended
consequences that varied from place to place. As the Green
Revolution played out over time, these consequences rippled
throughout societies, affecting environments, economies, political
structures, and countless human lives. Analyzing change over time,
almost decade by decade, Hurt shows that the Green Revolution was
driven by the state as well as science. Rather than acknowledge the
vast problems with the Green Revolution or explore other models,
Hurt argues, scientists and political leaders doubled down and
repeated the same missteps in the name of humanity and food
security. In tracing the permutations of modern science's impact on
international agricultural systems, Hurt documents how, beyond
increasing yields, the Green Revolution affected social orders,
politics, and lifestyles in every place its methods were
applied-usually far more than once.
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