Geopolitics and the Green Revolution

by John H. Perkins

Controlling the Earth explores why four different countries (U.S., India, Britain, and Mexico) each sought to develop high yielding wheat production. National security concerns and management of foreign exhange were prime motivators of the new technologies, a relationship that has not been previously developed in studies of agricultural modernization. Furture reform efforts in agriculture will be affected by this history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195110137
• ISBN13: 9780195110135
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"