Author:
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Total Pages: 814
Release:
Genre:
ISBN:

REVISTA

REVISTA
Author: Academia Brasileira de Letras
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1913
Genre: Brazilian literature
ISBN:

Troubled Harvest

Troubled Harvest
Author: Joseph Cotter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2003-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313052549

During the 20th century, two revolutions swept rural Mexico: the Mexican Revolution and the Green Revolution. In both, revolutionaries promised to address the problems of rural poverty and underdevelopment. The Mexican Revolution led to a significant agrarian reform and created the State and elite that governed Mexico since the 1920s. The Green Revolution helped increase Mexican agricultural production substantially, and in 1970 it won a Nobel Peace Prize for Norman Borlaug, who bred dwarf hybrid wheat. Mexican agronomists played significant roles in both revolutions, but neither revolution brought prosperity to peasant farmers. This book examines the history of Mexican agronomy and agronomists to shed new light on the role of science in the Mexican Revolution, the origins of the worldwide Green Revolution, and general issues about the nature of the professions, the impact of professionals' ties to politics and the state, and discourses between members of Mexico's urban middle class and peasantry. Cotter also analyzes the impact of foreign models of science in Mexico, the history of U.S.-Mexican cooperation in the agricultural sciences, and the factors that led Mexico to seek scientific assistance from the United States. In a broad way, he reveals new aspects of the ongoing struggle for the right to define modernity and progress in rural Mexico, and offers new explanations for the failure of many of the State's efforts to assist peasant farmers.

Agrindex

Agrindex
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 854
Release: 1994
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Etica ed economia

Etica ed economia
Author: Vitantonio Gioia
Publisher: Rubbettino Editore
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9788849809824