Globalization and the Rural Environment

Editor Otto T. Solbrig

Editor Robert Paarlberg

Editor Francesco Di Castri

    As the world transitions from an industrial society to an information society, agriculture has undergone a dramatic transformation. Food production in the 20th century was transformed by three revolutions: first mechanical, then genetic, and finally chemical. Now, in the 21st century, agriculture is going through at least two more revolutions: an information technology revolution leading to precision farming, and a biotechnology revolution leading to genetically engineered crops.

    Organized by Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies with the collaboration of the Scientific Committee for Problems of the Environment, this interdisciplinary volume examines the impact of a variety of new technological, social, and economic trends on the rural environment.

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Otto T. Solbrig is Bussey Professor of Biology, Harvard University.

Robert Paarlberg is the Betty F. Johnson Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College.

Francesco Di Castri is the Former Associate Director General of UNESCO and Director-Founder of its Man and the Biosphere Program.

John H. Coatsworth is Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and former Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

Merilee S. Grindle is Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.