num_pages: 551
description: As the world transitions from an industrial society to an information society, agriculture has undergone a dramatic transformation. Food production in the twentieth century was transformed by three first mechanical, then genetic, and finally chemical. Now, in the twenty-first century, agriculture is going through at least two more an information technology revolution leading to precision farming, and a biotechnology revolution leading to genetically engineered crops.Organized by Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies with the collaboration of the Scientific Committee for Problems of the Environment, this interdisciplinary volume examines the impact of a variety of new technological, social, and economic trends on the rural environment.
language: English
title: Globalization and the Rural Environment
titlecomplete: Globalization and the Rural Environment (Series on Latin American Studies)
publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies