Africa’s Green Revolution
Critical Perspectives on New Agricultural Technologies and Systems
Africa’s Green Revolution
Critical Perspectives on New Agricultural Technologies and Systems
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This volume complicates our understanding the dominant neoliberal agenda for alleviating hunger and poverty in Africa known as the New Green Revolution, raising serious questions about its effectiveness as a development strategy.
This book was based on a special issue of African Geographical Review.
William G. Moseley is a professor of geography and African studies at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN USA. His research is focused on food security, agriculture, development and environment in the African context. Matthew A. Schnurr is an associate professor in the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is an environmental geographer with research and teaching interests in environment and development, political ecology, agricultural biotechnology, farmer decision-making, and environmental justice. Rachel Bezner Kerr is an associate professor in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell Universit in Ithaca, NY USA. Her research interests focus on farmer-led agroecology, critical examinations of neoliberal approaches to agriculture, and the historical, political, economic, and gender dynamics that shape food security in sub-Saharan Africa.