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"Shiva elucidates the multinational companies' attempts to lure farmers away from growing traditional food crops to supplying exotics for the palates of the international elite....India's wholehearted adoption of the Green Revolution's twin offspring, monoculture and multicropping, demanded intensive irrigation systems that eventually replaced natural drainage patterns, triggered disastrous waterlogging, and exacerbated interstate water conflicts.Shiva, Vandana is the author of 'Violence of the Green Revolution Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics', published 1992 under ISBN 9780862329655 and ISBN 0862329655.
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