Colombia’s bitter sweet harvest

Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia, Timothy W. Lorek, 2023, University of North Carolina Press

Timothy Lorek begins his study of the Green Revolution and sugarcane monocrop production in the fertile Cauca Valley between the Andean cordilleras in south-west Colombia by talking not about agriculture, but about war.

This is the persistent backdrop to his scholarship because . . .

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Categories: Colombia, North America, South America, United States

Gavin O'Toole

I've spent much of my career in journalism and newspaper production: worked as a sub-editor and in other production roles at major UK newspapers including the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer and the Daily Telegraph / Sunday Telegraph. Covering business, finance, regulation, Latin American affairs and more. As a journalist and freelance writer I've contributed to many publications: work appears in outlets such as Al Jazeera, Public Finance, Global Government Forum, among others. Also an an award-winning writer of short stories and novelist. 

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