RT Journal Article
T1 Agricultural productivism, cosmopolitan plant-breeding, and the severed roots of agroecological thought.
A1 Carmona-Zabala, Juan
A1 Panagiotopoulos, Dimitris
K1 Ecología agrícola
K1 Agricultura - Grecia - S. XX
AB This article provides a historical account of the emergence of crop ecology, a precursor of modernagroecology, in the twentieth century. It focuses on the transnational career of agronomist IoannisPapadakis, a founding figure in this scientific discipline, while contextualizing his work as part of broaderstate-led projects of agricultural modernization in Europe and Latin America. This study has twoimplications concerning the history of agroecology. First, that agricultural productivism and acosmopolitan outlook on plant breeding, often considered to be at odds with agroecology's principles,were in fact necessary elements for the emergence of crop ecology, and therefore of agroecologicalthought more generally. Second, we argue that the excesses of the Green Revolution, against whichagroecology reacted in the last decades of the twentieth century, did not just stem from a disregard for theagricultural knowledge of indigenous peasants. They also resulted from the marginalization of intellectualdispositions that had taken shape in peripheral areas within the global geography of scientific production.A third implication, specific to the history of Greek agriculture, is that the claim that interwar Greece’srural economy failed to substantially develop needs to be nuanced when the priorities of Greekagronomists are taken into consideration.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2021
FD 2021-08-08
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/31402
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/31402
LA eng
NO Carmona-Zabala, J., & Panagiotopoulos, D. (2022). Agricultural productivism, cosmopolitan plant-breeding, and the severed roots of agroecological thought. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 46(1), 133–158. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2021.1962476
NO Política de acceso abierto tomada de: https://beta.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/24927
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026