The Journal of Peasant Studies· 2012Q1
The Long Green Revolution
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Short summary
A historical analysis reveals a 'Long Green Revolution' spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, driven by capital accumulation cycles rather than isolated events.
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Key points
- The Green Revolution is re-framed as a 'Long Green Revolution' tied to capital accumulation cycles.
- Commonalities exist between past and present Green Revolutions, including class struggles and governance links.
- Philanthropic institutions play a key role in shaping agricultural change narratives.
- Historical analysis explains novel features of the 'New Green Revolution' like land grabs and patents.
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Abstract
To combat climate change and hunger, a number of governments, foundations and aid agencies have called for a ‘New Green Revolution’. Such calls obfuscate the dynamics of the Green Revolution. Using Arrighi's analysis of capital accumulation cycles, it is possible to trace a Long Green Revolution that spans the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Such an analysis illuminates commonalities in past and present Green Revolutions, including their bases in class struggles and crises of accumulation, modes of governance – particularly in the links between governments and philanthropic institutions – and the institutions through which truths about agricultural change were produced and became known. Such an analysis also suggests processes of continuity between the original Green Revolution and features of twenty-first-century agricultural change, while providing a historical grounding in international financial capital's structural changes to help explain some of the novel features that accompany the New Green Revolution, such as ‘land grabs’, patents on life, and nutritionism.
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