CDAE 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Rockefeller Foundation, Henry A. Wallace, War Communism
16 Apr 2019
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Saved many lives but also created many problems; still facing consequences today. Mexico agricultural program (map: in mexico, land reform taking place but still widespread hunger and poverty, henry wallace. Secretary of agriculture (1933-1940) during great depression. Not credited as father of green revolution. Norman borlaug: father of green revolution. Create hybrid seed from two varieties of same species. Conventional plant breeding (norman borlaug is not the same as genetic modi cation) Green revolution is a success: east & southeast asia and north & northeast africa -> food insecurity decreased. Food insecurity stays the same in subsaharan africa. Paradigm under which the green revolution under modernization theory and keynesianism: spread of green revolution required more than scienti c innovation. March 26: 1944, bretton woods conference: creation of world bank (called international bank for. John maynard keynes one of the masterminds: food security considered a production problem.
