Cultivating Crisis
Since World War II, the Green Revolution has boosted agricultural production in Latin America and other parts of the Third World, with money, technical assistance, and other forms of aid from United States development agencies. But the Green Revolution came at a high price--massive pesticide dependence that has caused serious socioeconomic and public health problems and widespread environmental damage.\ In this study, Douglas Murray draws on ten years of field research to tell the stories of...
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Since World War II, the Green Revolution has boosted agricultural production in Latin America and other parts of the Third World, with money, technical assistance, and other forms of aid from United States development agencies. But the Green Revolution came at a high price—massive pesticide dependence that has caused serious socioeconomic and public health problems and widespread environmental damage.In this study, Douglas Murray draws on ten years of field research to tell the stories of international development strategies, pesticide problems, and agrarian change in Latin America. Interwoven with his considerations of economic and geopolitical dimensions are the human consequences for individual farmers and rural communities.This highly interdisciplinary study, integrating the perspectives of sociology, ecology, economics, political science, and public health, adds an important voice to the debate on opportunities for and obstacles to more lasting and sustainable development in the Third World. It will be of interest to a wide audience in the social and environmental sciences. Choice This book will interest those wishing a balanced insight into the ecological and economic problems associated with fostering sustainable development in Third World countries.
Preface1Development's Unkept Promise12Pesticides and the Central American Cotton Boom73Cotton and the Pesticide Crisis274Addressing the Crisis through Nontraditional Agriculture555Pesticides and Social Inequity in Nontraditional Agriculture736The Search for Solutions: Integrated Pest Management997The Search for Solutions: The Safe-Use Paradigm1178Pesticides, Development, and Crisis: Toward a Resolution135Notes149Bibliography155Index169
\ ChoiceThis book will interest those wishing a balanced insight into the ecological and economic problems associated with fostering sustainable development in Third World countries.\ \
