Title Europe's green revolution and others since : the rise and fall of peasant-friendly plant breeding / Jonathan Harwood.

Imprint

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Location	Call Number	Status
Monograph Collection	HD1917 .H37 2012	AVAILABLE

Description	xviii, 269 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series	Routledge explorations in economic history ; 56.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-266) and index.
Contents	The origins of peasant-friendly research in Germany -- The movement for peasant-friendly plant-breeding, 1880-1905 -- Research, development and extension at the South German stations -- Success breeds trouble: the controversy over public-sector breeding, 1902-1933 -- The fate of peasant-friendly breeding under national socialism -- The Green Revolution and its critics -- Reforming the revolution: peasant-friendly innovation, 1970 -2010 -- Three conclusions.
Subject(s)	Green Revolution -- Europe -- History.
	Plant breeding -- Europe -- History.
	Plant breeding -- Germany -- History.
	Agricultural productivity -- Europe -- History.
	Farms, Small -- Europe -- History.