The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological
achievement-unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have
followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands
ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist,
Vandana Shiva takes a magnifying glass to the effects of the Green
Revolution in India, examining the devastating effects of monoculture
and commercial agriculture and revealing the nuanced relationship
between ecologica