Towards a second green revolution [electronic resource] : from chemical to new biological technologies in agriculture in the tropics : proceedings of the international meeting, held in Rome, Italy, 8-10 September, 1986 / edited by G.B. Marini-Bettòlo ; organized by the Accademia nazionale delle scienze detta dei XL in collaboration with the European Communities Commission and ENEA.

Genetic research in some fundamental crops, together with the use of chemicals as pesticides and fertilizers, opened the way in the 1950s and 1960s to great changes in methodology in agriculture - with astonishing results in the tropics. This change became known as the Green Revolution - a truly gre...

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