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Technological Change in Agriculture

Autor D. Hogg
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 feb 2000
Why do modern agricultural techniques, which are environmentally damaging, continue to be used? This path-breaking book seeks the answer to that question in an understanding of evolution of agricultural research in its cultural context.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780333751398
ISBN-10: 0333751396
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: XVIII, 296 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:2000 edition
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of Tables and Figures Preface List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Genetic Diversity in Agriculture: Its Rise, Fall, and Significance Technological Change in Agriculture: Orthodox Views The Determinants of the Path of Technological Change in Agriculture: An Unorthodox View Beyond Orthodoxy: Locking in to Genetic Uniformity Introduction to Case Studies Hybrid Corn in the United States, 1900-1935 The Road to Mexico's Green Revolution: Maize Research, 1940-1955 Biotechniques and the Neglect of Alternative Agriculture Conclusion Bibliography

Notă biografică

DOMINIC HOGG is currently Senior Consultant with ECOTEC Research and Consulting where he works exclusively on environment policy issues. He was awarded a MacArthur Studentship from the University of Cambridge in 1991, from where he obtained his Ph.D. Following a period in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, he was a consultant for Friends of the Earth, working on the linkages between tropical rainforest destruction and IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programmes. He has campaigned on environmental issues for many years and has been active in many aspects of the use and exploitation of genetic resources.