What are Improved Seeds? An Epistemology of the Green Revolution
从认识论角度探讨绿色革命如何将种子从丰裕的象征转变为稀缺的根源，并论证现代贫困是发展导致的稀缺，挑战了传统发展观。
After four decades of planned economic development, large numbers of people in the Third World still lack the basic means of subsistence. Broadly speaking, the academic debate on poverty has revolved around the type of development: free-market, planned socialist, or environmentally sustainable. It may be argued, however, that the principal problem lies in the very process of development, and that modern poverty is a form of development-induced scarcity. If this is true, our view of poverty must be radically altered to include its epistemology-that is, the intellect of how we know poverty. This position is clarified with an example from agricultural modernization, using a story about the Green Revolution and its epistemic transformation from seeds of plenty to seeds of scarcity.