ESPM 165 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Millennium Development Goals, Jeffrey Sachs, Sub-Saharan Africa

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 165
• Professor: claudia carr

Document Summary

Green rev 1 traditional breeding to hyvs: open pollination, hybridization. Green rev ii from hyvs to gmos (80s: based on recombinant dna technology, transgenic, herbicide tolerant. Green rev i drivers: population growth, cold war. Green rev 2 drivers: population growth, climate change, philanthro-capitalism, mdgs cut hunger in half by 2015. Components of green rev ii: gmos, agro dealers, hub and outgrower, public private partnerships. 1960s 70s consultative group on international agricultural research, formed by the. Rockefeller and ford foundations established multiple research centers in sub-saharan africa: momentum to push green rev into africa. 1980s 90s: momentum slowed by oil crisis, rising debt and sap wiped out state supported agricultural subsidies. Early 2000s: millennium development goals, led by jeffrey sachs, worked with world bank, goal of eradicating poverty and hunger, new momentum, 2006 agra, major player in what"s going on right now. 2008: crisis, drives agriculture for development because lots of people went hungry.