Europe's green revolution
Subtitle: the rise and fall of peasant-friendly plant breeding
By: Jonathan Harwood
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415598682; 9780203118047
Subjects: Small farms; Plant-breeding; Green Revolution; Agricultural productivity; History
Table of contents: title: The origins of peasant-friendly research in Germany; title: The movement for peasant-friendly plant-breeding, 1880-1905; title: Research, development and extension at the South German stations; title: Success breeds trouble: the controversy over public-sector breeding, 1902-1933; title: The fate of peasant-friendly breeding under national socialism; title: The Green Revolution and its critics; title: Reforming the revolution: peasant-friendly innovation, 1970 -2010; title: Three conclusions.