9781478006893-1478006897-The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops

The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops

ISBN-13: 9781478006893
ISBN-10: 1478006897
Author: Kregg Hetherington
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 296 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781478006893
ISBN-10: 1478006897
Author: Kregg Hetherington
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 296 pages

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The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops (ISBN-13: 9781478006893 and ISBN-10: 1478006897), written by authors Kregg Hetherington, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Environmental Economics (Economics) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Environmental Economics books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.63.

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The Government of Beans is about the rough edges of environmental regulation, where tenuous state power and blunt governmental instruments encounter ecological destruction and social injustice. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Paraguay was undergoing dramatic economic, political, and environmental change due to a boom in the global demand for soybeans. Although the country's massive new soy monocrop brought wealth, it also brought deforestation, biodiversity loss, rising inequality, and violence. Kregg Hetherington traces well-meaning attempts by bureaucrats and activists to regulate the destructive force of monocrops that resulted in the discovery that the tools of modern government are at best inadequate to deal with the complex harms of modern agriculture and at worst exacerbate them. The book simultaneously tells a local story of people, plants, and government; a regional story of the rise and fall of Latin America's new left; and a story of the Anthropocene writ large, about the long-term, paradoxical consequences of destroying ecosystems in the name of human welfare.

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