Globalizing Wheat

Name: Globalizing Wheat
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Success and Failure of the Green Revolution

By: Marci Baranski

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Paperback | 29 May 2019

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200 Pages

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Globalizing Wheat: Success and Failure of the Green Revolution by Marci Baranski tells the scientific history of how wheat cameto cover more land than any other food crop on the planet and explores theimpact that globalizing trends in wheat breeding have had on local innovation and foodinsecurity. In the 1960s, a small group of scientists and administrators, ledchiefly by Norman Borlaug in his time with the Rockefeller Foundation,popularized a controversial new paradigm of wheat research-a paradigm that isstill as disputed as it is dominant in leading agricultural research anddevelopment institutions around the world. Delivering the first sustained studyof Borlaug's concept of "wide adaptation," Baranski reveals how Borlaug and hiscolleagues managed to influence thinking and practices so profoundly worldwide.Drawing on extensive new research, including interviews with scientists inIndia, Baranski further demonstrates how the legacy of this group's work stillguides policy and research decisions, often with unintended consequences. In Globalizing Wheat, the author sheds new light on the future of foodsecurity in India and offers an important new critique of the Green Revolution.

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