This paper explores the accounts of the Green Revolution in India given by Vandana Shiva and Govindan Parayil and demonstrates the ways in which these accounts are influenced by their models of technology and science. It is argued that Shiva and Parayil represent key theoretical positions in ...
摘要: Established in 1688, the Green Howards are one of the most famous regiments in the British Army. This book charts their history and so reflects that of the army in its greatest battles. It covers their story from 1688 to the 1990s......
Cannabis made its entrance into the Americas alongwith Jamestown colonistsin the early 1600s. Its role in the production of items like rope, sails, and clothing made it a massive cash crop. The cultivation of hemp was so valuable that the Virginia assemblypassed a lawrequiring every farm to...
(C)theoverallfailureoftheGreenRevolution (D)theeffectsofcolonialism 37.Duringclassicaltimes (A)MalaymerchantssailedfromSoutheastAsia toEastAfrica39.Whichofthefollowingreligionsissuggestedby (B)centralAsiansguardedtraderoutesbutdidthesymbolsabove? notparticipateintradethemselves (A)Hinduism (C)therewasafavorableba...
The successes of the Green Revolution for agriculture initially turned Mexico from an importer to an exporter of food, but the continuing exploitation of natural resources for the market led to deforestation, overgrazing, abuse of pesticides, and other degradations that together with a growing populat...
Unjab, state of India, located in the northwestern part of the subcontinent. Punjab in its present form came into existence on November 1, 1966, when most of its predominantly Hindi-speaking areas were separated to form the new state of Haryana.
With theGreen Revolutionof the 1960s and ’70s, the traditional shade-grown method lost much of its popularity because better results can be obtained without shade or with very light shade if other practices, such as trimming, weeding, andfertilization, are followed. Yields as high as 2,300 ...
A feminist historian gives a summary of theSocial Purity Movement– the 19th century pre-curser of feminism and the origin of the Sexual Trade Union. The historian – Laura Hapke – makes the claim that the Social Purity Movement was ‘not fully feminist’ because it tended to opppose contrac...
Last postRe: WEDDINGS - Here come the … bycarius 23 Dec 2024 19:55 Heer, Waffen-SS & Fallschirmjäger Discussions on all (non-biographical) aspects of the Freikorps, Reichswehr, Austrian Bundesheer, Heer, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Fallschirmjäger and the other Luftwaffe ground forces. ...
Due to the success of the Green Revolution in Mexico, its technologies spread worldwide in the 1950s and 1960s. The United States, for instance, imported about half of its wheat in the 1940s but after using Green Revolution technologies, it became self-sufficient in the 1950s and became a...