Presented By: Science, Technology & Society
STS Speaker. Of Canals, Rivers, and the Right to Exist: Histories of Science and Technology for a Changed World.
Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Harvard University
In the mid 1960s seeds from an experimental station in northern Mexico helped launch the Green Revolution. Use of these high-yielding seeds transformed farming from Latin America to South Asia. Their status as "miracle" seeds was challenged in a few years when excessive use of fertilizer and pesticides wreaked havoc on the environment and had lasting social impacts on farming communities across the globe. While many have written about the Green Revolution and its consequences, how do we construct historical narratives of such events? This talk will interrogate whose narratives are erased and which survive by examining the contexts of overshadowed histories of the so-called Green Revolution.
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