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03328aam a2200361 i 4500 001 55813D7A74A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200402010032 008 190730s2020 alua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2019027815 020 $a 0817320512 020 $a 9780817320515 035 $a (OCoLC)1104462789 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a d------ 050 00 $a S482 $b .H87 2020 082 00 $a 630.2/086 $2 23 100 1 $a Hurt, R. Douglas $e author. 245 14 $a The green revolution in the global south : $b science, politics, and unintended consequences / $c R. Douglas Hurt. 264 1 $a Tuscaloosa : $b The University of Alabama Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xii, 264 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Nexus: new histories of science, technology, the environment, agriculture & medicine 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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 this work, 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Green Revolution $z Developing countries. 650 7 $a Green Revolution. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00947585 651 7 $a Developing countries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01242969 830 0 $a Nexus (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200505014805.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=55813D7A74A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search