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This chapter confronts the dominant narrative about the Green Revolution in Latin America with its critics and, through a case study, proposes an agenda with an alternative periodization. The first section analyzes the dominant narrative of the Green Revolution through a discussion of its origin writings and theoretical foundations. The following section is an overview of the critical literature on this dominant narrative. Finally, it proposes a multiplicity of green revolutions with other chronologies, depending on national political processes and the degree of agricultural modernization. The conclusions suggest a change in the process’ chronology, shifting its beginnings from 1968 to 1941, and underscoring “green revolutions” linked to agricultural modernization in the post-war era. It is based on the literature on the subject and other documentary sources.
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Picado, W. (2022). Evaluating the Green Revolution Dominant Narrative for Latin America: Technology, Geopolitics, and Institutions. In: Barahona, A. (eds) Handbook of the Historiography of Latin American Studies on the Life Sciences and Medicine. Historiographies of Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74723-7_14
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