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Author Lorek, Timothy, author.

Title Making the Green Revolution : agriculture & conflict in Colombia / Timothy W. Lorek
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 317 pages ): illustrations, maps
Series Flows, migrations, and exchanges
Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
Contents 1. The paradise of America -- 2. Prophets of a promised land -- 3. The most necessary occupation -- 4. Sugarcane genealogies -- 5. Quixotic developments -- 6.The Cold War Cauca Valley: from the CAP to CIAT -- Epilogue - Beyond the gates: sugarcane monoculture and CIAT in the Cauca Valley
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
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.
SCIENCE / Environmental Science
Agricultural assistance, American
Agriculture -- Research
Globalization
Green Revolution
Politics and government
Sugarcane industry
Colombia -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Colombia
Colombia -- Cauca River Valley
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022058212
ISBN 9781469673844
1469673843
Other Titles Agriculture and conflict in Colombia