History of Rice in Latin America

Pereira, Jéssica Luciana dos Santos; Guimarães, Eduardo Roberto Junqueira

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“…;Pereira and Guimarães 2010]. 8 As was the case with the rice revolution in the U.S., the modernization of the rice industry in Brazil involved both mechanical innovations and infrastructure (cultivation/harvesting machinery and irrigation works) and biological innovation, including domestic breeding and the successful importation of cultivars from the U.S. and Japan [Mandell 1971;Pereira and Guimarães 2010;Singh et al 2017 Today, rice, however grown-whether in small plots in labor-intensive ways with or without mechanization, or on huge farms employing massive amounts of expensive capital equipment and virtually no human beingsmeets up and competes in integrated global markets, with prices essentially set internationally. The process by which the rice market became globally integrated-with the so-called law of one price reigning-was a protracted one, which began in the early modern period, gathered steam, as it were, during the long nineteenth century (1750( -1914, and was completed during the short twentieth century (1914( -1991 [Latham and Neal op.…”

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Everything that rises must converge

Coclanis¹

2020

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Everything that rises must vonverge. Asian rice, American producers, and technological change in the U.S. rice industry 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 landextensive, 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".

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Section: The Rice "Revolution"mentioning

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2020

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The history of the rice gene pool in Suriname: circulations of rice and people from the eighteenth century until late twentieth century

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2018

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Alongside the trans-Atlantic slave trade, plant species travelled from Africa to the Americas and back. This article examines the emerging rice gene pool in Suriname due to the global circulation of people, plants and goods. We distinguish three phases of circulation, marked by two major transitions. Rice was brought to the Americas by European colonizers, mostly as food on board of slave ships. In Suriname rice started off as a crop grown only by Maroon communities in the forests of the Suriname interior. For these runaway slaves cultivating several types of rice for diverse purposes played an important role in restoring some of their African culture. Rice was an anti-commodity that acted as a signal of protest against the slave-based plantation economy. After the end of slavery, contract labourers recruited from British India and the Dutch Indies also brought rice to Suriname. These groups grew rice as a commodity for internal and global markets. This formed the basis of a second transition, turning rice into an object of scientific research. The last phase of science-driven circulation of rice connected the late-colonial period with the global Green Revolution.

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History of Rice in Latin America

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Everything that rises must converge

Everything that rises must converge

The history of the rice gene pool in Suriname: circulations of rice and people from the eighteenth century until late twentieth century

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