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Author Harwood, Jonathan

Title Europe's Green Revolution and its Successors : the Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents Cover; Europe's Green Revolution and Others Since; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The origins of peasant-friendly research in Germany; 2. The movement for peasant-friendly plant breeding, 1880-1905; 3. Research, development and extension at the south German stations; 4. Success breeds trouble: the controversy over public-sector breeding, 1902-1933; 5. The fate of peasant-friendly breeding under National Socialism; 6. The Green Revolution and its critics; 7. Reforming the revolution: peasant-friendly innovation, 1970-2010
8. Three conclusionsNotes; Abbreviations; Archival sources; Printed primary sources; Bibliography; Index
Summary How best to foster agricultural development in the Third World has long been a subject of debate and from a European perspective the persistent failure to design peasant-friendly technology is puzzling. From the late 19th century, for example, various western European countries also underwent 'green revolutions' in which systematic attempts were made to promote the adoption of technological innovation by peasant-farmers. This book focuses on the development of public-sector plant-breeding in Germany from the late nineteenth century through its fate under National So
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Subject Green Revolution -- Europe -- History
Plant breeding -- Europe -- History
Plant breeding -- Germany -- History
Agricultural productivity -- Europe -- History
Farms, Small -- Europe -- History
Agricultural productivity
Farms, Small
Green Revolution
Plant breeding
Europe
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203118047
0203118049