Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War

by JohnH.Perkins (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1998

  $186.14

  Perkins explores why four countries each sought to develop high yielding wheat production. National security concerns and management of foreign exchange were prime motivators of the new technologies, a relationship that has not been previously developed in studies of agricultural modernization.