Agricultural Modernisation and the Green Revolution in the Twentieth-Century World

PREFACE


INTRODUCTION

1. From rural modernities to agricultural modernisation: a new narrative
Miguel Cabo, Lourenzo Fernandez Prieto and Juan Pan-Montojo


Part I. BRIDGES AND TRANSITIONS

2. Flow, stock, and epistemic change: using biotic and consuming mineral resources in agricultural production
Juri Auderset and Peter Moser

3. Inventing new seeds: genetics research and Iberian connections during the dictatorships
Dulce Freire

4. Racial productivism. Agrarian change under the Nazi regime in German-annexed Austria, 1938-1945
Ernst Langthaler

5. Agrarian parties in the twentieth century: rise and fall of an alternative modernity
Miguel Cabo

6. From the International Institute of Agriculture to the Food and Agriculture Organization
Federico D'Onofrio



Part II. AGRICULTURAL MODERNITIES AND MODERNISATION IN THEIR POLITICAL CONTEXTS

7. UK agriculture before and after the Second World War: agricultural policies and the adoption of new technologies, 1920-1970
Paul Brassley

8. The 'Green Evolution' in Denmark, 1930-1972
Thomas Christiansen

9. The 'Green Revolution' in the Red Zone: the case of socialist Hungarian agriculture
Zsuzsanna Varga

10. Reordering rural Congo. Agricultural development and the paysannats indigenes in the Belgian Congo, 1930s-1950s
Yves Segers

11. Back to the future: international agrarian development in Ethiopia and the legacy of Italian colonialism
Michele Sollai

12. New models for agriculture in the post-war American Southern Cone
Luis Ernesto Blacha

13. 'Taking risks to create value': agricultural modernisation and the making of 'Progressive' Indian farmers, 1947-1967
Madhumita Saha


Part III. THE TRIUMPH OF THE MODERNISING LOGIC AFTER 1945

14. Agricultural modernisation from a biophysical point of view: Spain, c. 1900-2008
Manuel Gonzalez de Molina

15. The 'modernisation' of agriculture in the global South after 1945: Green Revolution as 'American revolution'
Jonathan Harwood

16. US agricultural cooperation programmes in Latin America since World War II
Wilson Picado and Jose A. Fernandez Molina

17. Gender and agricultural modernisation: agricultural extension in Spain and France in the 1960s and 1970s
Ana Cabana, Alba Diaz-Geada and Sylvain Brunier

18. Resisting the Green Revolution epic in Brazil and India
Poonam Pandey and Lidia Cabral

Index

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• Comunidades rurais
• Economia agrícola

Agricultural Innovation; Green Revolution; Twentieth Century; Rural Societies; Agrarian Production; Socio-economic Consequences; Environmental Consequences; Post-war Reconstruction; Development Policies; Industrial Resources; Organic Framework; Social Engineering