Subject(s): Agricultural ecology -- Politics and government -- Social conditions -- Science and politics in the green revolution : conquest of nature and society -- Miracle seeds and the destruction of genetic diversity : HYV, genetic uniformity and the creation of new pests -- Chemical fertilizers and soil fertility : soil conservation, organic inputs -- Intensive irrigation ,large dams and water conflicts : Thirsty seeds, large dams and centralisation of political power, inter-state water conflicts and the elusive search for equality -- Political and cultural costs of the green revolution : Economic cost, communalising farmers protest, development, social disintegration and violence -- Pepsico for peace- ecological and political risks of the biotechnology revolution : Seeds of ecological vulnerability, seed and dependency -- Seed and the spinning wheel- political ecology of technological change : Biotechnology development and biodiversity conservation, patents, intellectual property and the politics of knowledge