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The Violence of Green Re. Sold by Seattlegoodwill. Vandana Shiva was one of India's leading physicists and is now a leading environmental campaigner, the winner of the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize and the author of several books, including Soil not Oil (2008), Earth Democracy (2005) and Stolen Harvest (2001).

The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement - unprecedented in.

The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement - unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes a magnifying glass to the effects of the Green Revolution in India, examining the devastating effects of monoculture and commercial agriculture and revealing the nuanced relationship between ecological destruction and poverty. In this classic work, the influential activist and scholar also looks.

Vandana Shiva examined the impact of the first Green Revolution on the breadbasket of India. latest Gene Revolution technology to India and warns of the further environmental and social damage which will ensue. In a cogent empirical argument, she shows how the 'quick fix' promise of large gains in output pushed aside serious pursuit of an alternative agricultural strategy grounded in respect for the environmental wisdom of peasant systems and building an egalitarian, needs-prientated agriculture consistent with the village-based, endogenous political traditions of Gandhism.

Vandana Shiva analyses the Green Revolution and its components very lucidly and with good perspective. Receiving her P. in physics at the University of Western Ontario in 1978, Dr. Vandana Shivas attentions were quickly drawn towards ecological concerns. Books by Vandana Shiva

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Green Revolution, Agricultural ecology. London ; Atlantic Highlands, . USA : Zed Books ; Penang, Malaysia : Third World Network. inlibrary; printdisabled; ; china.

The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement - unprecedented in human history

The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement - unprecedented in human history. Dr Shiva documents the destruction of genetic diversity and soil fertility that resulted and in highly original fashion shows how the Green Revolution also contributed to the acute social and political conflicts now tearing the Punjab apart.

London: Zed Books; Penang, Malaysia, Third World Net- work, 1991. Shiva, Vandana, "The Seed and the Earth: Women, Ecology, and Biotechnology," The Ecologist 22(no. 1, January/February 1992):4-7. An examination of the Green Revolution on the breadbasket of India. The quick fix promise of large gains in output pushed aside serious pursuit of an alternative agricultural strategy grounded in respect for the environmental wisdom of peasant systems and building an egalitarian, needs-oriented agriculture, consistent with the village-based, endogenous political traditions of Ghandism.