Making the Green Revolution: Landscapes of Conflict and Peace in Colombia

FAIN: FT-278874-21

Timothy Wayne Lorek
Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)

Research for a book analyzing the place of Colombia in the history of the Green Revolution in agriculture that began in the 1960s. 

Making the Green Revolution connects the global Green Revolution in agricultural science and technology to modernization politics in Colombia and that country’s long-running rural conflict and violence. This book is based on archival research in over a dozen locations in Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the mainland United States. It is a revision of my 2019 Yale dissertation, which won prizes from Yale and the Agricultural History Society. The manuscript is under advanced contract with the University of North Carolina Press for the award-winning environmental history series “Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges.” An NEH Summer Stipend would facilitate targeted research to respond to reviewers' comments (in hand) and complete the manuscript by August 15, 2021. If public health conditions allow, I plan to spend June 1 - July 31, 2021 in Cali and Bogota, Colombia.