The Greenhouse: New Perspectives on the Green Revolution

For this session we'll be reading about new perspectives on the Green Revolution

Lídia Cabral, Poonam Pandery, and Xiaolu Xu. ‘Epic narratives of the Green Revolution in Brazil, China, and India.’ Agricultural and Human Values (2021).

Prakash Kumar, Timothy Lorek, Tore C. Olsson, Nicole Sackley, Sigrid Schmalzer, and Gabriela Soto Laveaga. ‘Roundtable: New Narratives of the Green Revolution.’ Agricultural History 91, no. 3 (2017): 397–422.

Optional Additional Reading: 

Jonathan Harwood. ‘Another Green Revolution? On the Perils of ‘Extracting Lessons’ from History,’ Development 61 (2018): 43–53. 

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.