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Colonial Green Revolution?: Food, Irrigation and the State in Colonial Malaya (Cabi Publishing) by John Overton; C.A.B. International is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Colonial Green Revolution?: Food, Irrigation and the State in Colonial Malaya (Cabi Publishing) about?

The main aim of this book is to investigate the relationship between colonialism and agricultural development. It focuses on Malaysia and rice production and investigates why a green revolution did not take place in colonial times, when in several ways the preconditions were laid for this. It is shown that colonial agricultural policy was based on a low-cost, low-tech model of rural development, which nevertheless offered a more sustainable approach than methods employed subsequently to achieve advances in grain production. The book draws on a wide variety of archival data and is aimed at social scientists concerned with colonial history, peasant transformations and agricultural change.

Author

John Overton; C.A.B. International

Publisher

CABI; Oxford University Press; Brand: CABI

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780851989129

Subjects

Economics, Management, History