Colonial Green Revolution?: Food, Irrigation and the State in Colonial Malaya

by John Overton

The main aim of this book is to investigate the relationship between colonialism and agricultural development. It focuses on Malaysia and rice production and investigates why a green revolution did not take place in colonial times, when in several ways the preconditions were laid for this. It is shown that colonial agricultural policy was based on a low-cost, low-tech model of rural development, which nevertheless offered a more sustainable approach...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851989128
• ISBN13: 9780851989129
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages