Making the Green Revolution : agriculture & conflict in Colombia /

Making the Green Revolution : agriculture & conflict in Colombia /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lorek, Timothy, author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Description:	xxii, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Flows, migrations, and exchanges Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
Subject:	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical. Agriculture -- Research -- Colombia -- Cauca River Valley -- History -- 20th century. Agricultural development projects -- Political aspects -- Colombia -- Cauca River Valley. Agricultural assistance, American -- Colombia -- Cauca River Valley -- History -- 20th century. Green Revolution -- Colombia -- Cauca River Valley -- History -- 20th century. Sugarcane industry -- Colombia -- Cauca River Valley -- History -- 20th century. Globalization -- Colombia -- Cauca River Valley. Cold War. Agricultural assistance, American. Agriculture -- Research. Globalization. Green Revolution. Politics and government. Sugarcane industry. Colombia -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Colombia. Colombia -- Cauca River Valley. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13148508

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Varying Form of Title:	Agriculture and conflict in Colombia.
ISBN:	9781469673813 1469673819 9781469673820 1469673827 9781469673837 9781469673844
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"In November 2017, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at its headquarters outside Palmira, Colombia. As an important research center of the so-called Green Revolution in agricultural science and technologies, CIAT emphasizes its contributions to sustainability, food security, gender equity, inclusive markets, and resilient, climate-smart agriculture. Yet these terms hardly describe the Cauca Valley where CIAT is physically located, a place that has been transformed into an industrial monoculture of sugarcane where thirteen Colombian corporations oversee the vast majority of this valley's famously fertile soil. This exemplifies the paradox Timothy W. Lorek describes: an international research center emphasizing small-scale and sustainable agricultural systems sited conspicuously on a landscape otherwise dominated by a large-scale corporate sugarcane industry"--
Other form:	ebook version : 9781469673844

Table of Contents:

The paradise of America
Prophets of a promised land
The most necessary occupation
Sugarcane genealogies
Quixotic developments
The Cold War Cauca Valley: from the CAP to CIAT
Beyond the gates: sugarcane monoculture and CIAT in the Cauca Valley.