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Seeding empire: American philanthrocapital and the roots of the green revolution in Africa by Nehring, Ryan

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The Green Revolution by Hazell, Peter B. R.

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Agrifood systems policy research: historical evolution of agrifood systems in Haryana, India. Policy and institutional evolution by Narain, V.

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Political economy of wheat value chains in post-revolution Sudan by Resnick, Danielle

“…Wheat flour and bread have played a central role in Sudan’s political economy throughout the country’s post-independence history. In 2019, increasing bread prices precipitated the protests that ousted the government of Omar al-Bashir. …”
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Agrifood systems policy research: agricultural growth, hunger, and poverty. Historical evolution of agrifood systems in Pakistan by Gazdar, H.

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Åkrar, ängar och den agrara revolutionen by Ståhl, Camilla

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Landskapets historiska utveckling vid den sörmländska gården Barksätter by Nilsson, Mats Daniel

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Elementos para el estudio de la dinámica y evolución histórica de la extensión rural en Argentina by Alemany, Carlos Enrique

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Landmark NUS events and key publications by Padulosi, Stefano, Hunter, Danny

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Temporal and spatial dynamics of pulse production in India by Sekar, Inba, Roy, Devesh, Joshi, Pramod Kumar

“…Chapter 3 gives a detailed description of pulse production dynamics across regions and over time. It divides the history since 1960 into four time periods: pre– and early Green Revolution; advanced and post– Green Revolution; postliberalization; and post– trade spike. …”
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Learning for Adoption: Technology Adoption in Developing Country Agriculture by Janvry, A. de, Macours, K., Sadoulet, E.

“…Productivity growth in agriculture is expected to be the main source of successful structural transformation and industrialization for pre-industrial developingcountries with an un-captured potential in agriculture. Indeed, history tells us that agricultural revolutions have preceded industrial revolutions in most countries withrural populations. …”
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Försvinn. Påminn. Eller återvinn? : om det industriella kulturarvets framtid genom Norra Sorgenfri by Rosén, Rebecka

“…This essay deals with the industrial past, present and future and begins with the impact and importance the industrial revolution has had on us humans, socially, economically and structurally. …”

CIMMYT - Proposed Five Year Plan, 1971-1975 by International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

“…Document discussed by CIMMYT Board in September 1970. Includes a brief history of CIMMYT and identification of new factors influencing the center's expanding operations and changes to its existing programs, including increased emphasis on the problems of small farmers who have thus far not benefited from CIMMYT generated "green revolution" technologies. …”
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Stowe: en landskapspark av betydelse by Averdal, Rebecca

Paternal origins and migratory episodes of domestic sheep by Juan Deng, Xing-Long Xie, Dong-Feng Wang, Chao Zhao, Feng-Hua Lv, Xin Li, Ji Yang, Jia-Lin Yu, Min Shen, Lei Gao, Jing-Quan Yang, Ming-Jun Liu, Wen-Rong Li, Yu-Tao Wang, Feng Wang, Jin-Quan Li, Eer Hehua, Yong-Gang Liu, Zhi-Qiang Shen, Yan-Ling Ren, Guang-Jian Liu, Ze-Hui Chen, Gorkhali, N.A., Rushdi, H.E., Salehian-Dehkordi, H., Esmailizadeh, A., Nosrati, M., Paiva, S.R., Caetano, A.R., Stepanek, O., Olsaker, I., Weimann, C., Erhardt, G., Curik, I., Kantanen, J., Mwacharo, Joram M., Hanotte, Olivier H., Bruford, M.W., Ciani, E., Periasamy, K., Amills, M., Lenstra, J.A., Han Jianlin, Hong-Ping Zhang, Li Li, Meng-Hua Li

“…These findings provide important insights into the history of migration and pastoralism of sheep across the Old World, which was associated with different breeding goals during the Neolithic agricultural revolution.…”
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Det industrihistoriska arvet i stadsomvandlingsprocesser by Ruist, Emilia

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Technological change and price effects in agriculture: conceptual and comparative perspectives by Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude, Barrett, Christopher B., Dorosh, Paul A.

“…While these issues are not unique throughout history, the advent of biological and chemical technologies that are both divisible and scale-neutral and the experiences referred to as the Green Revolution in the latter-half of the twentieth century throughout much of Asia have fostered a lively and long debate on the growth and particularly the distributional consequences of technological change in the agriculture of developing countries. …”
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The lowest hanging fruit: Beneficial gene knockouts in past, present, and future crop evolution by Monroe, J.G., Arciniegas Vega, Juan Pablo, Moreno, J.L., Sánchez, F., Sierra, S., Valdés, S., Torkamaneh, D., Chavarriaga, P.

“…This includes dramatic examples from the very origins of agriculture to the monumental yield increases of the Green Revolution. Recent advances in the generation of whole genome sequence data and functional investigations into the molecular genetic basis of crop traits continue to reveal the existence of considerable beneficial loss of function in crop species. …”
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Los viveros comunales en El Salvador: un caso de éxito en la difusión de la tecnología forestal by Heckadon M, S.

“…CATIE promotes a silent revolution in Central America: changing the people's traditional culture of "extractive" forestry for a new one, based on the incorporation of tree cultivation within the production systems. …”
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Balancing livelihoods and environment: political economy of groundwater irrigation in India by Shah, T., Rajan, Abhishek, Rai, Gyan P.

“…India’s agricultural economy has undergone profound transformation in the past 50 years with the rapid spread of groundwater irrigation. The tube well revolution has democratized irrigation, made famines history, helped alleviate agrarian poverty and made India food secure. …”
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