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Globalization and the Rural Environment
(Series on Latin American Studies)
by Otto Thomas Solbrig, Contributor-Miguel Altieri, Contributor-V. Balaji, Francesco Di Castri, Contributor-Sandra Batie, Contributor-Nazri Choucri, Robert Paarlberg, Contributor-Juan Enriquez, Contributor-Eugenio Figueroa, Contributor-Robert Horsch, Contributor-Jordan Kimball, Contributor-William Lockeretz, Contributor-Jerry Melillo, Contributor-Otto Doering, Carlos H. Cadoppi, John H. Coatsworth, Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Rocio Fernandez Ales, Anthony C. Janetos, Professor Pierre R. Crosson, Rolando Meninato, Jean-Claude Monolou, Lazaro Ojeda Quintana, Angelo Palermo, Roberto Peiretti, Max Pfeffer, Veronique Plocq Fichelet, Beatrice Rogers, Carlos A. Salvador, Emilio Satorre, Laura Vainesman, Raul Vera, Ernesto F. Viglizzo, Contributor-Wyn Grant, Merilee S. Grindle, Talal Younes, Contributor-Jan Blom, Professor Robert L. Paarlberg, Contributor-Pierre Crosson
Paperback, 551 Pages, Published 2001 by David Rockefeller Center For Latin American Studies
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-00531-0, ISBN: 0-674-00531-7
" 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 revol ..."
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