Agricultural Modernisation and the Green Revolution in the Twentieth-Century World

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Professor Miguel Cabo Professor Lourenzo Fernández Prieto

Agricultural Modernisation and the Green Revolution in the Twentieth-Century World

Name: Agricultural Modernisation and the Green Revolution in the Twentieth-Century World
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Professor Miguel Cabo, Professor Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, Professor Juan Pan-Montojo , Alba Díaz Geada

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Boydell & Brewer
03 March 2026

Rural communities

Series: Boydell Studies in Rural History

An overarching history of the origins, development, and application of agricultural innovation in the past, and of the paradigms and institutional frameworks in which they were developed throughout the twentieth century.

From the late nineteenth century onwards, rural societies and agrarian production across the world were profoundly transformed. Prior to the Second World War, technological innovations developed within an intensive organic framework and advanced largely in dialogue with existing producers. After the war, social engineering became the prevailing model in agricultural and rural policies almost everywhere. Modernisation was imposed from above, targeting so-called ""archaic"" or ""anti-modern"" peasants and farmers, who were pushed to produce ever-greater quantities of food, timber, and other raw materials through the expanded use of industrial and inorganic resources. Applied as a USA political programme in Asian, Latin American and African countries, this strategy became known as the ""Green Revolution"". Although it undermined rural societies and eroded the sustainability of agricultural production, it remained central to political agendas, leaving a difficult legacy for future generations.

This book analyses agrarian change and agricultural policies before and after 1945, highlighting the socio-economic and environmental consequences of these two very different periods in global agrarian history. Its diverse case studies span continents and political systems, considering topics from post-war reconstruction in the UK and Denmark to development policies in the Belgian Congo and post-fascist Ethiopia; from production projects in communist Hungary to agricultural transformations across the Southern Cone and India.

Chapter 6 is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-ND

Contributions by: Alba Díaz Geada, Ana Cabana Iglesia
Edited by: Professor Miguel Cabo, Professor Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, Professor Juan Pan-Montojo
Imprint: Boydell & Brewer
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781837653317
ISBN 10: 1837653313
Series: Boydell Studies in Rural History
Pages: 386
Publication Date: 03 March 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

MIGUEL CABO VILLAVERDE is Professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain). LOURENZO FERNÁNDEZ PRIETO is Professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela and director of the CISPAC (Inter-universities Research Centre for Atlantic Cultural Landscapes). JUAN PAN-MONTOJO is Professor of Modern History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. FEDERICO D'ONOFRIO is Associate Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic History of the University of Vienna. JUAN PAN-MONTOJO is Professor of Modern History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. LOURENZO FERNÁNDEZ PRIETO is Professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela and director of the CISPAC (Inter-universities Research Centre for Atlantic Cultural Landscapes). PAUL BRASSLEY is an Honorary University Fellow in the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter Yves Segers is professor of Rural History at KU Leuven and director of the Interfaculty Centre for Agrarian History (ICAG, KU Leuven).