Seeding Empire American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa 1st Edition by Aaron Eddens ISBN 978-0520395299 0520395298

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ISBN 10:   0520395298

ISBN 13: 978-0520395299

Author:  Aaron Eddens 

In Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past—and future—of global agriculture. Eddens connects today’s efforts to cultivate a “Green Revolution in Africa” to a history of American projects that introduced capitalist agriculture across the Global South. Expansive in scope, this book draws on archival records of the earliest Green Revolution projects in Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as interviews at development institutions and agribusinesses working to deliver genetically modified crops to millions of small-scale farmers across Africa. From the offices of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the halls of the world’s largest agricultural biotechnology companies to field trials of hybrid maize in Kenya, Eddens shows how the Green Revolution fails to address global inequalities. Seeding Empire insists that eradicating hunger in a world of climate crisis demands thinking beyond the Green Revolution.

Table of contents: 

1. How We Remember the Green Revolution

2. “A Green Revolution, This Time for Africa”

3. “The Landraces Are in the Hybrids”

4. Seeing Like a Seed Company

5. Securitizing Smallholder Farmers on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

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