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Comparing Green revolution.State and technological change in Costa Rica, México and Spain.1940-1970.
| What Green revolution means? Three decades after his first public mention prevails the dual use of this concept. Green revolution is synonymous of “agricultural modernization” in the Third World. Also it is used to indicate the adoption of the high-yielding varieties in the grain production in Asian agricultures. Green revolution is an efficient concept to describe to the general and the specific thing. But, does this denomination include the totality of the implemented technological change in agricultures of the Third World as of 1950? In this communication it is tried to analyze the institutional transformations that experienced agricultures of Costa Rica, Mexico and Spain between the decades of 1940 and 1970. The objective is to describe the evolution of its agrarian public institutions to identify potentials common (or singular) patterns in the forms and the mechanisms through which the technological model of the Green revolution was implemented in three different countries.
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