Title: The Political Economy of Agricultural Research in the Third World
Abstract: Agricultural technologies are dialectical processes inexorably tied to the quantitative and qualitative changes of a myriad of social relations within political economies. Any discussion of the political economy of agricultural research must, therefore, articulate the political and economic objectives of such research as a means to historically conditioned social ends. The specific examples in this paper are primarily drawn from India and Brazil as these two societies have long been active in Third World agricultural research and amply represent die Faustian dilemma experienced in die Third World. The structure of India's agricultural universities, created with the help of USAID and US land grant universities provided an institutional network to service the development of new technology. The institutional structures for the extension of Green Revolution technology not only transformed Third World agricultural relations and practices but also facilitated the exploitation of Third World resources by developed nations and corporations.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-08-31
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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