ABSTRACT
The case studies from Africa, South Asia and Central America in this volume make three important arguments about the trajectories of rural development that deploy Green Revolution technologies. The first is that understanding the contextualized micro and regional geographies of agriculture and food consumption is vital to building socially and ecologically sustainable futures. Second, rural development interventions that privilege increasing yields and technical solutions have short-term benefits but do not necessarily alleviate hunger and poverty in the long run. And finally, these interventions build on existing inequalities in resource access and distribution over the long term and deepen unequal access, distribution and control of food and food producing resources for farmers, pastoralists and fishers.
