ABSTRACT
There has been a continuing debate on rural futures that was nourished in the industrialized world by the agricultural policies of the European Economic Community (EEC) – now European Union (EU) – on the one hand, and on the other by the transfer and application of Green Revolution technologies in the developing world. Two key issues are being discussed: in the field of economics, methods of agricultural production, and at the sociocultural level, the rural way of life. Both have undergone tremendous change, including some unfavourable side-effects, as pointed out on different occasions in the previous chapters.
