1st Edition
The Green Revolution Revisited Critique and Alternatives
1. Agriculture between the Green Revolution and ecodevelopment – which way to go? Part I: The Green Revolution: Policy and Implementation 2. The Political Economy of Agricultural Research: A Review of CGIAR’s Response to Criticism’s of the ‘Green Revoltuion’ 3. The Green Revolution Re-examined in India Part II: Alternative Approaches in Three Continents 4. Alternative Developments in Brazil 5. Trees: Appropriate Tools for Water and Soil Management 6. Low-Energy Farming Systems in Nigeria 7. Theory and Methods of Ecofarming and their Realization in Rwanda, East Africa 8. Yield Increase and Environmental Compatibility Through Ecofarming Part III: Outlook 9. Towards a Second Green Revolution?
Biography
Bernhard Glaeser is the President of the German Society for Human Ecology (DGH), LOICZ (Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone) Corresponding Member (previously Scientific Steering Committee) and member of the IMBER (Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research) Human Dimensions Working Group (IMBER HD). He joined the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) in 1976, became Professor of Human Ecology in 1995 at Göteborg University (Sweden) and Professor of Sociology in 2001 at the Berlin Free University, Department of Political and Social Sciences. Glaeser holds degrees in economics, philosophy and sociology. He has done environmental and sustainability research in Germany, Sweden, Tanzania, China, India and Indonesia and is affiliated with various international editorial and advisory boards.
