The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops Hetherington Kregg
The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops Hetherington Kregg The Government of Beans is about the rough edges of environmental regulation, where tenuous state power and blunt…
Specifikacia The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops Hetherington Kregg
The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops Hetherington Kregg
The Government of Beans is about the rough edges of environmental regulation, where tenuous state power and blunt governmental instruments encounter ecological destruction and social injustice. Although the country's massive new soy monocrop brought wealth, it also brought deforestation, biodiversity loss, rising inequality, and violence. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Paraguay was undergoing dramatic economic, political, and environmental change due to a boom in the global demand for soybeans.
The book simultaneously tells a local story of people, plants, and government; a Kregg Hetherington traces well-meaning attempts by bureaucrats and activists to regulate the destructive force of monocrops that resulted in the discovery that the tools of modern government are at best inadequate to deal with the complex harms of modern agriculture and at worst exacerbate them.
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