Article ID: CBB758194610

The socialist origins of the Green Revolution: Pandurang Khankhoje and domestic ‘technical assistance’ (2020)

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Origin narratives of the Green Revolution have been periodized to influence who is seen as an expert and memorialized as such. This article pushes us to reframe technical assistance to include in country agricultural aid activities needed for many foreign assistance initiatives to succeed. Many agricultural-based technical assistance projects of the twentieth century trace their origins to the emergence of a Rockefeller Foundation-led Green Revolution. This essay argues that in Mexico the arrival of so-called foreign technical assistance was not new but rather a continuation of socialist-based agricultural initiatives based on transforming rural life thru science. In addition to missing the influence of pivotal national institutions and scientists, key transnational, pre-exisiting relationships are often overlooked. This essay illustrates the importance of pushing back the time-line by using the case of Pandurang Khankhoje, an Indian agronomist working in Mexico before the arrival of Norman Borlaug and the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Article Gisela Mateos; Edna Suárez-Díaz (2020) Development interventions: science, technology and technical assistance. History and Technology (pp. 293-309). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Baranski, Marci R.
Ali Erken
Ann P. Kinzig
Lorek, Timothy W.
Joseph, Gilbert M.
Sarah Kunkel
Concepts
Agriculture
Green revolution
Agricultural technology
Science and society
Modernization
Forests and forestry
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Modern
21st century
Places
Mexico
India
Peru
Pacific Northwest (North America)
Ankara (Turkey)
Ghana
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
Hacettepe Üniversitesi
Ankara Yüksek Ziraat Enstitüsü
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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