The Greenhouse: Crop Legacies of the Green Revolution

For this session we'll be reading about crop legacies of the Green Revolution

Ann Raeboline Lincy Eliazer Nelson, Kavitha Ravichandran, and Usha Antony. ‘The Impact of the Green Revolution on Indigenous Crops in India.’ Journal of Ethnic Foods 6 (2019).

Claiton Marcio da Silva and Claudio de Majo. ‘Towards the Soyacene: Narratives for an Environmental History of Soy in Latin America’s Southern Cone.’ Historia Ambiental, Latinoamericana y Caribeña 11 no. 1 (2021): 329–356.

The Greenhouse is a meeting place for students and researchers interested in the history and sociology of plants, food, agriculture and environment to explore how science and technology shape what we grow and eat. The regular programme of papers and discussions is curated in conjunction with the project From Collection to Cultivation, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust.

The reading group is open to all. We meet from 12-1pm on Tuesdays fortnightly during Cambridge term time, to discuss papers or presentations. We're currently meeting via Zoom, with access information circulated prior to the sessions via our reading group mailing list. Write to us at hps-greenhouse@lists.cam.ac.uk to subscribe.

This term's theme is the Green Revolution.