Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: This essay uses the case of the so-called rice revolution in the United Sates (c. 1885-1915) both to explain how a radically different approach to growing rice came about and to gain insight into the broader process of technological change in agriculture. There are several possible ways to interpret this revolution, one whereby rice was grown for the first time in history as a land-extensive, capital-intensive crop employing little labor. In the essay the author discusses several such interpretations, develops one of his own, and discusses some of the long-term implications of the “rice revolution”.
Source: Études rurales
Author: Peter A. Coclanis
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3098039027