Author: Jacob George Harrar
Publisher: New Yrok : [Rockefeller Foundation]
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: Germán Vergara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108918077
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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Around the 1830s, parts of Mexico began industrializing using water and wood. By the 1880s, this model faced a growing energy and ecological bottleneck. By the 1950s, fossil fuels powered most of Mexico's economy and society. Looking to the north and across the Atlantic, late nineteenth-century officials and elites concluded that fossil fuels would solve Mexico's energy problem and Mexican industry began introducing coal. But limited domestic deposits and high costs meant that coal never became king in Mexico. Oil instead became the favored fuel for manufacture, transport, and electricity generation. This shift, however, created a paradox of perennial scarcity amidst energy abundance: every new influx of fossil energy led to increased demand. Germán Vergara shows how the decision to power the country's economy with fossil fuels locked Mexico in a cycle of endless, fossil-fueled growth - with serious environmental and social consequences.

Author: United States. Department of State. Library Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Amanda Carroll Waterhouse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979638947
Category : Philanthropists
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: Joseph Cotter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313052549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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During the 20th century, two revolutions swept rural Mexico: the Mexican Revolution and the Green Revolution. In both, revolutionaries promised to address the problems of rural poverty and underdevelopment. The Mexican Revolution led to a significant agrarian reform and created the State and elite that governed Mexico since the 1920s. The Green Revolution helped increase Mexican agricultural production substantially, and in 1970 it won a Nobel Peace Prize for Norman Borlaug, who bred dwarf hybrid wheat. Mexican agronomists played significant roles in both revolutions, but neither revolution brought prosperity to peasant farmers. This book examines the history of Mexican agronomy and agronomists to shed new light on the role of science in the Mexican Revolution, the origins of the worldwide Green Revolution, and general issues about the nature of the professions, the impact of professionals' ties to politics and the state, and discourses between members of Mexico's urban middle class and peasantry. Cotter also analyzes the impact of foreign models of science in Mexico, the history of U.S.-Mexican cooperation in the agricultural sciences, and the factors that led Mexico to seek scientific assistance from the United States. In a broad way, he reveals new aspects of the ongoing struggle for the right to define modernity and progress in rural Mexico, and offers new explanations for the failure of many of the State's efforts to assist peasant farmers.

Author: Rockefeller Foundation
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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Category : Plant breeding
Languages : en
Pages : 1064

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