#greenrevolution — Public Fediverse posts

“It’s the bell curve again”*…

Joseph Howlett on how the central limit theorem, which started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers, became something on which scientists rely every day…

No matter where you look, a bell curve is close by.

Place a measuring cup in your backyard every time it rains and note the height of the water when it stops: Your data will conform to a bell curve. Record 100 people’s guesses at the number of jelly beans in a jar, and they’ll follow a bell curve. Measure enough women’s heights, men’s weights, SAT scores, marathon times — you’ll always get the same smooth, rounded hump that tapers at the edges.

Why does the bell curve pop up in so many datasets?

The answer boils down to the central limit theorem, a mathematical truth so powerful that it often strikes newcomers as impossible, like a magic trick of nature. “The central limit theorem is pretty amazing because it is so unintuitive and surprising,” said Daniela Witten, a biostatistician at the University of Washington. Through it, the most random, unimaginable chaos can lead to striking predictability.

It’s now a pillar on which much of modern empirical science rests. Almost every time a scientist uses measurements to infer something about the world, the central limit theorem is buried somewhere in the methods. Without it, it would be hard for science to say anything, with any confidence, about anything.

“I don’t think the field of statistics would exist without the central limit theorem,” said Larry Wasserman, a statistician at Carnegie Mellon University. “It’s everything.”

Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the push to find regularity in randomness came from the study of gambling…

Read on for the fascinating story of: “The Math That Explains Why Bell Curves Are Everywhere,” from @quantamagazine.bsky.social.

Howlett concludes by observing that “The central limit theorem is a pillar of modern science, ultimately, because it’s a pillar of the world around us. When we combine lots of independent measurements, we get clusters. And if we’re clever enough, we can use those clusters to find out something interesting about the processes that made them”– which follows from the story he shares.

Still, we’d do well to remember that there are limits to its applicability, both descriptively (as Nassim Nicholas Taleb points out, “because the bell curve ignores large deviations, cannot handle them, yet makes us confident that we have tamed uncertainty”) and prescriptively (as Benjamim Bloom argues, “The bell-shaped curve is not sacred. It describes the outcome of a random process. Since education is a purposeful activity….the achievement distribution should be very different from the normal curve if our instruction is effective).

For (much) more, see Peter Bernstein‘s wonderful Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

* Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

###

As we noodle on the normal distribution, we might send curve-shattering birthday greetings to Norman Borlaug; he was born on ths date in 1914. An agronomist, he developed and led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the voluminous increases in agricultural production we call “the Green Revolution.” Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal; he’s one of only seven people to have received all three of those awards.

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...👉There simply is no other possibility if we are to withstand once more the #Kassandra predictions👈 like mine here, or e.g. quite some time ago, about the #Overshoot, the #PopulationBomb, the #GreenRevolution, and the importance of the so-called #PhantomCarryingCapacity:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112047709692840344.

As I summed up in this in this thread here, I guess, is the best example of 👉the imminent reality of this #PhantomCarryingCapacity is deep-well...

@DoomsdaysCW

any recommendations for modernist depictions of agriculture and food production?

i've included some example images below.

some keywords:
* mechanized agriculture
* industrial farming
* industrial food production
* farm as factory
* farm modernization
* chemical agriculture
* green revolution

i've got the following materials on my to-read list:

* "every farm a factory: the industrial ideal in american agriculture" by deborah fitzgerald
* Ch. 8 of "seeing like a state": "Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity" by james c. scott
* "Farming according to 'the laws of beauty': Aesthetics and agriculture" by david cooper (https://www.academia.edu/14380031/Farming_according_to_the_laws_of_beauty_Aesthetics_and_agriculture)
* "the american technological sublime" by david nye (not sure if it has anything about agriculture specifically)
* "the machine in the garden: technology and the pastoral" by leo marx (update: i've now skimmed this work and it seems to be concerned with an earlier era, not the high modernist period)

if you're familiar with any written works looking at this kind of aesthetic specifically, i'd love to hear about it.

also, if you have suggestions for archives (online or irl) that might have more materials like this, i'm all ears.

#sundaylibrarian #history #art #ArtHistory #agriculture #GreenRevolution #food #aesthetics #modernism #industrialization #ResearchLibrarian

@benfell @GhostOnTheHalfShell

...the #Automotive industry, which pushed the ecocidal #CombustionEngine for at least 30 years longer than was ecologically sensible and #Technologically feasible (because it remained highly profitable), is coming to SN end (electric cars.)

Also, after the first #GreenRevolution 7), #Agriculture set on #MassProduction of crops instead of water-reduction of farming on a global scale. (https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109972629386382918)

7) #GreenRevolution:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112047724725803354

...

Interested in ultra-sustainable heating and cooling, in-ground construction, or construction with non-traditional materials? If yes, then this open source guide to thermal mass and thermal lag will help.
https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/thermal-lag/

#FutureOfFarming #AgriTech #SustainableAgriculture #UrbanFarming #Hydroponics #FoodSecurity #InnovationInAgriculture #GreenRevolution #SmartFarming #Sustainability

Breaking News – Minister Prathap: Minister bought a Tesla car.. What happened to the word 'Swadeshi'?
https://vaartha.com/minister-who-bought-a-tesla-car-what-happened-to-the-word-swadeshi/national/542220/
#PratapSarnaik #TeslaIndia #Swadeshi #TeslaModelY #ElectricVehicle #MaharashtraMinister #EVAdoption #GreenMobility #TeslaIndiaLaunch #SustainableTransport #BreakingNews #PoliticalControversy #VaarthaLive #TeluguNews #IndianPolitics #MakeInIndia #CleanEnergy #ElectricCars #GreenRevolution #EnvironmentFriendly

Breaking News – Minister Prathap: Minister bought a Tesla car.. What happened to the word 'Swadeshi'?
https://vaartha.com/minister-who-bought-a-tesla-car-what-happened-to-the-word-swadeshi/national/542220/
#PratapSarnaik #TeslaIndia #Swadeshi #TeslaModelY #ElectricVehicle #MaharashtraMinister #EVAdoption #GreenMobility #TeslaIndiaLaunch #SustainableTransport #BreakingNews #PoliticalControversy #VaarthaLive #TeluguNews #IndianPolitics #MakeInIndia #CleanEnergy #ElectricCars #GreenRevolution #EnvironmentFriendly

Breaking News – Minister Prathap: Minister bought a Tesla car.. What happened to the word 'Swadeshi'?
https://vaartha.com/minister-who-bought-a-tesla-car-what-happened-to-the-word-swadeshi/national/542220/
#PratapSarnaik #TeslaIndia #Swadeshi #TeslaModelY #ElectricVehicle #MaharashtraMinister #EVAdoption #GreenMobility #TeslaIndiaLaunch #SustainableTransport #BreakingNews #PoliticalControversy #VaarthaLive #TeluguNews #IndianPolitics #MakeInIndia #CleanEnergy #ElectricCars #GreenRevolution #EnvironmentFriendly

Breaking News – Minister Prathap: Minister bought a Tesla car.. What happened to the word 'Swadeshi'?
https://vaartha.com/minister-who-bought-a-tesla-car-what-happened-to-the-word-swadeshi/national/542220/
#PratapSarnaik #TeslaIndia #Swadeshi #TeslaModelY #ElectricVehicle #MaharashtraMinister #EVAdoption #GreenMobility #TeslaIndiaLaunch #SustainableTransport #BreakingNews #PoliticalControversy #VaarthaLive #TeluguNews #IndianPolitics #MakeInIndia #CleanEnergy #ElectricCars #GreenRevolution #EnvironmentFriendly

Breaking News – Minister Prathap: Minister bought a Tesla car.. What happened to the word 'Swadeshi'?
https://vaartha.com/minister-who-bought-a-tesla-car-what-happened-to-the-word-swadeshi/national/542220/
#PratapSarnaik #TeslaIndia #Swadeshi #TeslaModelY #ElectricVehicle #MaharashtraMinister #EVAdoption #GreenMobility #TeslaIndiaLaunch #SustainableTransport #BreakingNews #PoliticalControversy #VaarthaLive #TeluguNews #IndianPolitics #MakeInIndia #CleanEnergy #ElectricCars #GreenRevolution #EnvironmentFriendly

"Pride happened despite the ban. And the legalization of cannabis hasn't even begun. It seems that there is something that courage has already protected - and something that it still has to fight for." 🌈🌿🛑

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#cannabis #pride2025 #freedomrights #420hungary #legalizationnow #pride #weedtruth #weedcrime #ganjalife #cannabiscommunity #wakeandbake #freeourplant #hungarianpolitics #legalizeit #realworld #greenrevolution #hypocracy #equality #stonerculture #stonerdaddy

If weed were legalized, maybe there would be less parliamentary debate and more unity. 😄🌿🏛️

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#cannabis #weedcrime #420hungary #legalizationnow #weedhumor #ganjalife #cannabiscommunity #wakeandbake #freeourplant #parliamentparade #hungarianpolitics #legalizeit #realworld #politicalcriticism #laughtertherapy #stonerculture #positivevibe #truthhurts #greenrevolution #stonerdaddy

Genetically Modified Crops

What narratives around genetically modified crops persist? What is the role of the state in pro-biotech frames? What tools can we employ to explore marginalized perspectives?

Examine the open access scholarship on genetically modified crops!

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

#GMO #Biotech #GeneticallyModified #GreenRevolution #InVitroMeat #Ecofeminism #ReadingList

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/search/index?query=genetically+modified+crops&dateFromYear=&dateFromMonth=&dateFromDay=&dateToYear=&dateToMonth=&dateToDay=&authors=

Genetically Modified Crops

What narratives around genetically modified crops persist? What is the role of the state in pro-biotech frames? What tools can we employ to explore marginalized perspectives?

Examine the open access scholarship on genetically modified crops!

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

#GMO #Biotech #GeneticallyModified #GreenRevolution #InVitroMeat #Ecofeminism #ReadingList

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/search/index?query=genetically+modified+crops&dateFromYear=&dateFromMonth=&dateFromDay=&dateToYear=&dateToMonth=&dateToDay=&authors=

Genetically Modified Crops

What narratives around genetically modified crops persist? What is the role of the state in pro-biotech frames? What tools can we employ to explore marginalized perspectives?

Examine the open access scholarship on genetically modified crops!

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

#GMO #Biotech #GeneticallyModified #GreenRevolution #InVitroMeat #Ecofeminism #ReadingList

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/search/index?query=genetically+modified+crops&dateFromYear=&dateFromMonth=&dateFromDay=&dateToYear=&dateToMonth=&dateToDay=&authors=

Genetically Modified Crops

What narratives around genetically modified crops persist? What is the role of the state in pro-biotech frames? What tools can we employ to explore marginalized perspectives?

Examine the open access scholarship on genetically modified crops!

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

#GMO #Biotech #GeneticallyModified #GreenRevolution #InVitroMeat #Ecofeminism #ReadingList

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/search/index?query=genetically+modified+crops&dateFromYear=&dateFromMonth=&dateFromDay=&dateToYear=&dateToMonth=&dateToDay=&authors=

Genetically Modified Crops

What narratives around genetically modified crops persist? What is the role of the state in pro-biotech frames? What tools can we employ to explore marginalized perspectives?

Examine the open access scholarship on genetically modified crops!

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

#GMO #Biotech #GeneticallyModified #GreenRevolution #InVitroMeat #Ecofeminism #ReadingList

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/search/index?query=genetically+modified+crops&dateFromYear=&dateFromMonth=&dateFromDay=&dateToYear=&dateToMonth=&dateToDay=&authors=

The #GreenRevolution brought major improvements in #cropbreeding, irrigation & #fertilizer use, leading to a substantial rise in #foodsecurity & reduced rural #poverty. But the focus was primarily on #yields; the cultivation of other food crops decreased... (1/2) https://doi.org/10.1186/s42269-024-01281-4

#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity

(3/n)

"...anticipate the #GreenRevolution, which took off in the 1970s.

👉#Farmers began to use new chemical #fertilizers such as #phosphorous and #ammonia (which is derived from #NaturalGas), and #agrochemicals such as #pesticides and #herbicides  [#oil derivatives]).👈
In addition, they began to use new types of #farming equipment that mechanized #cultivation and harvesting.

But that’s not all. In the past, a #drought...

* #ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity *

(1/n)

The #AngloSaxon capitalist model ruined earth for humanity and many other species. #BigOil has been its undertaker, b/c #BigOilKnew.

If capitalism hadn't made the #GreenRevolution possible, human society would already have reached the #overshoot (1) point at the end of the last century:
In 1968, the #biologists Paul  and Anne #Ehrlich  wrote the book The #PopulationBomb"...

#ClimateChange
#Climate

(1)
https://medium.com/@CollapseSurvival/overshoot-why-its-already-too-late-to-save-civilization-e834cb4ec694

#ClimateChange #Agriculture

@PIK_climate

(1/2)

I agree. A second #GreenRevolution is direly needed. Probably even the only way out to preserve the current societies and reign in the #ClimateCatastrophy.
Systemic thinking and integrated approaches are of the essence.

I had hoped to read about #Agrivoltaics, #WaruWaru and #Camellones. Alas, still none of these terms even appear in the "GLOBAL POLICY REPORT:
The Economics of the Food System Transformation".

Sad.

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109972629386382918

'‘We’re facing a critical shortage’: why #UK’s #GreenRevolution urgently needs #SkilledWorkers

The country’s #NetZero transition may not be short of funds. But it desperately requires many more skilled #engineers, #electricians and #workers than it has
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/20/were-facing-a-critical-shortage-why-uks-green-revolution-urgently-needs-skilled-workers
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Education #Training #Immigration #ToryFailure #DontLookUp

Europe’s #GreenRevolution Threatens #Indigenous Culture

The #Sámi indigenous people have inhabited northern Sweden for thousands of years. Now their way of life is threatened by giant wind farms, mines rich in rare battery minerals and logging.

By Kasia Strek and Jonas Ekblom
June 26, 2023

"The European #GreenRevolution designed to slow down #ClimateChange globally is threatening the way of life of the Sámi people, one of the continent’s last-remaining indigenous groups. The breakneck pace to decarbonize is having damaging consequences for the #forests and land they have inhabited for thousands of years.

"It’s not the first time progress and industrial development in Sweden come at the expense of the Sámi. The group comprises roughly 80,000 people spread out across northern Scandinavia and is commonly associated with a semi-nomadic lifestyle of #reindeer herding, even though only a minority of Sámis live like this today. In the past, they have been persecuted and oppressed by some Swedish and Norwegian institutions.

"Sweden never had any colonies, but instead it colonized its north, a Swedish saying goes. The abundant minerals, wood and water that helped the country become one of the world’s wealthiest during the 20th century are found mostly in the wild and sparsely populated region that’s also the Sámi’s traditional territory."

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-sweden-indigenous-sami-green-energy/

#SamiPeople #Sweden #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #ForestDefenders #WindFarms #Tourism #Vattenfall #NoConsent #Skogsupproret #Timberharvesting #Biomass

@TheGuardian

(3/n)

...#US, #India, #Russia, and #Japan👈."
//

A couple of days ago, @breadandcircuses wrote an article about #degrowth, in which he correctly describes how 👉the global economic system must be radically altered ("transitioned away from #capitalism👈," he calls it.)

https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/111386920334307763

I agree wholeheartedly.

On top of this, however, this transition must include an agricultural revolution that embraces extensive use of #agrivoltaics + #WaruWaru for a 2nd #GreenRevolution...

In the #GreenRevolution plant breeders created shorter varieties of rice & wheat with higher #yields, preventing #famines in poorer countries. Now they pieced together elements controling #corn growth, and #maize can get shorter, too: https://www.science.org/content/article/shrinking-corn-help-farmers-environment #PlantBreeding #GMO

Crisis in India’s bread basket

How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity.

https://www.himalmag.com/punjab-agriculture-crisis-investment-green-revolution-farmer-protests/

#punjab #agriculture #unemployment #GreenRevolution #ContractFarming #RIL #FarmersProtest #india

le lyssenkisme, qui, dans l’Union soviétique de #Staline, entraîna le bannissement de la génétique au nom de l’idéologie #communiste
[...]
Sur #Lyssenko, il y a peu d’archives.
[...]
#TrofimLyssenko est à part. C’est un #agronome de base qui, grâce à #Staline, arrive à dominer la biologie en #UnionSoviétique et à faire interdire la génétique jugée "bourgeoise"

[F]. Conclusions

The work of #Lukianenko and certain other grain breeders led to an explosion of research on HYVs in #Russia from the 1960s onward, as well as substantial genetics research and greatly improved education that began even before #Lysenko’s removal from power. These topics, however, lie outside the scope of this article. (109) This study of #Lukianenko challenges the prevailing view that #Lysenko held back Soviet genetics for a generation. While certainly during the heyday of #Lysenkoism, the #Soviet regime victimized many excellent #Soviet geneticists and wasted money and time on fraudulent Lysenkoists’ “research,” many other scientists conducted valid, substantial, and important work—particularly in the area of plant breeding. #Lukianenko was not the only agricultural scientist who did such research in these years, but his work had more national and international significance than that of any other #Soviet agricultural scientist in this period.

This work differed greatly from the conventional view of scientific research in the time of #Lysenko: #Lukianenko’s work began before #Lysenko’s rise and continued despite his dominance. #Lukianenko’s work relied substantially on plant varieties from outside the #USSR, in many cases brought into the #USSR through the work of #NikolaiVavilov. He also relied on conventional principles of genetics, including the guidelines for plant breeding published by #Vavilov, as well as some breeding theories and techniques from outside the #USSR. In particular he and his co-workers independently sought and achieved the same goals as the Italians around #Strampelli in the early 20th century and #Borlaug in the #GreenRevolution of the 1950s-1960s.

#Lukianenko’s work during #Lysenko’s time and afterwards produced several extremely important wheat varieties that had the same characteristics as the #GreenRevolution varieties created by #Borlaug. #Lukianenko’s Bezostaia-1, a semi-dwarf rust resistant HYV earned the highest praise from European and American breeders including #Borlaug as one of the best of the HYVs. This finding thus goes beyond even #Krementsov’s points about scientists’ evasion of #Lysenko. The work of #Lukianenko and his colleagues, more than simply continuing previous genetics-based work in plant breeding, achieved breakthroughs that put it at the forefront of world wheat breeding, both in their methods and their results. Because of the accomplishments of #Lukianenko and his co-workers in #Krasnodar, a post-Soviet Russian symposium on breeding of wheat and triticale commemorating #Lukianenko was entitled “The Green Revolution of P. P. Luk’ianenko.” (111) Thus despite #Lysenko, Soviet agronomists and #agriculture thus participated in the international #GreenRevolution under #Lysenko’s dominance as well as afterwards.

le lyssenkisme, qui, dans l’Union soviétique de #Staline, entraîna le bannissement de la génétique au nom de l’idéologie #communiste
[...]
Sur #Lyssenko, il y a peu d’archives.
[...]
#TrofimLyssenko est à part. C’est un #agronome de base qui, grâce à #Staline, arrive à dominer la biologie en #UnionSoviétique et à faire interdire la génétique jugée "bourgeoise"

[F]. Conclusions

The work of #Lukianenko and certain other grain breeders led to an explosion of research on HYVs in #Russia from the 1960s onward, as well as substantial genetics research and greatly improved education that began even before #Lysenko’s removal from power. These topics, however, lie outside the scope of this article. (109) This study of #Lukianenko challenges the prevailing view that #Lysenko held back Soviet genetics for a generation. While certainly during the heyday of #Lysenkoism, the #Soviet regime victimized many excellent #Soviet geneticists and wasted money and time on fraudulent Lysenkoists’ “research,” many other scientists conducted valid, substantial, and important work—particularly in the area of plant breeding. #Lukianenko was not the only agricultural scientist who did such research in these years, but his work had more national and international significance than that of any other #Soviet agricultural scientist in this period.

This work differed greatly from the conventional view of scientific research in the time of #Lysenko: #Lukianenko’s work began before #Lysenko’s rise and continued despite his dominance. #Lukianenko’s work relied substantially on plant varieties from outside the #USSR, in many cases brought into the #USSR through the work of #NikolaiVavilov. He also relied on conventional principles of genetics, including the guidelines for plant breeding published by #Vavilov, as well as some breeding theories and techniques from outside the #USSR. In particular he and his co-workers independently sought and achieved the same goals as the Italians around #Strampelli in the early 20th century and #Borlaug in the #GreenRevolution of the 1950s-1960s.

#Lukianenko’s work during #Lysenko’s time and afterwards produced several extremely important wheat varieties that had the same characteristics as the #GreenRevolution varieties created by #Borlaug. #Lukianenko’s Bezostaia-1, a semi-dwarf rust resistant HYV earned the highest praise from European and American breeders including #Borlaug as one of the best of the HYVs. This finding thus goes beyond even #Krementsov’s points about scientists’ evasion of #Lysenko. The work of #Lukianenko and his colleagues, more than simply continuing previous genetics-based work in plant breeding, achieved breakthroughs that put it at the forefront of world wheat breeding, both in their methods and their results. Because of the accomplishments of #Lukianenko and his co-workers in #Krasnodar, a post-Soviet Russian symposium on breeding of wheat and triticale commemorating #Lukianenko was entitled “The Green Revolution of P. P. Luk’ianenko.” (111) Thus despite #Lysenko, Soviet agronomists and #agriculture thus participated in the international #GreenRevolution under #Lysenko’s dominance as well as afterwards.

le lyssenkisme, qui, dans l’Union soviétique de #Staline, entraîna le bannissement de la génétique au nom de l’idéologie #communiste
[...]
Sur #Lyssenko, il y a peu d’archives.
[...]
#TrofimLyssenko est à part. C’est un #agronome de base qui, grâce à #Staline, arrive à dominer la biologie en #UnionSoviétique et à faire interdire la génétique jugée "bourgeoise"

[F]. Conclusions

The work of #Lukianenko and certain other grain breeders led to an explosion of research on HYVs in #Russia from the 1960s onward, as well as substantial genetics research and greatly improved education that began even before #Lysenko’s removal from power. These topics, however, lie outside the scope of this article. (109) This study of #Lukianenko challenges the prevailing view that #Lysenko held back Soviet genetics for a generation. While certainly during the heyday of #Lysenkoism, the #Soviet regime victimized many excellent #Soviet geneticists and wasted money and time on fraudulent Lysenkoists’ “research,” many other scientists conducted valid, substantial, and important work—particularly in the area of plant breeding. #Lukianenko was not the only agricultural scientist who did such research in these years, but his work had more national and international significance than that of any other #Soviet agricultural scientist in this period.

This work differed greatly from the conventional view of scientific research in the time of #Lysenko: #Lukianenko’s work began before #Lysenko’s rise and continued despite his dominance. #Lukianenko’s work relied substantially on plant varieties from outside the #USSR, in many cases brought into the #USSR through the work of #NikolaiVavilov. He also relied on conventional principles of genetics, including the guidelines for plant breeding published by #Vavilov, as well as some breeding theories and techniques from outside the #USSR. In particular he and his co-workers independently sought and achieved the same goals as the Italians around #Strampelli in the early 20th century and #Borlaug in the #GreenRevolution of the 1950s-1960s.

#Lukianenko’s work during #Lysenko’s time and afterwards produced several extremely important wheat varieties that had the same characteristics as the #GreenRevolution varieties created by #Borlaug. #Lukianenko’s Bezostaia-1, a semi-dwarf rust resistant HYV earned the highest praise from European and American breeders including #Borlaug as one of the best of the HYVs. This finding thus goes beyond even #Krementsov’s points about scientists’ evasion of #Lysenko. The work of #Lukianenko and his colleagues, more than simply continuing previous genetics-based work in plant breeding, achieved breakthroughs that put it at the forefront of world wheat breeding, both in their methods and their results. Because of the accomplishments of #Lukianenko and his co-workers in #Krasnodar, a post-Soviet Russian symposium on breeding of wheat and triticale commemorating #Lukianenko was entitled “The Green Revolution of P. P. Luk’ianenko.” (111) Thus despite #Lysenko, Soviet agronomists and #agriculture thus participated in the international #GreenRevolution under #Lysenko’s dominance as well as afterwards.

le lyssenkisme, qui, dans l’Union soviétique de #Staline, entraîna le bannissement de la génétique au nom de l’idéologie #communiste
[...]
Sur #Lyssenko, il y a peu d’archives.
[...]
#TrofimLyssenko est à part. C’est un #agronome de base qui, grâce à #Staline, arrive à dominer la biologie en #UnionSoviétique et à faire interdire la génétique jugée "bourgeoise"

[F]. Conclusions

The work of #Lukianenko and certain other grain breeders led to an explosion of research on HYVs in #Russia from the 1960s onward, as well as substantial genetics research and greatly improved education that began even before #Lysenko’s removal from power. These topics, however, lie outside the scope of this article. (109) This study of #Lukianenko challenges the prevailing view that #Lysenko held back Soviet genetics for a generation. While certainly during the heyday of #Lysenkoism, the #Soviet regime victimized many excellent #Soviet geneticists and wasted money and time on fraudulent Lysenkoists’ “research,” many other scientists conducted valid, substantial, and important work—particularly in the area of plant breeding. #Lukianenko was not the only agricultural scientist who did such research in these years, but his work had more national and international significance than that of any other #Soviet agricultural scientist in this period.

This work differed greatly from the conventional view of scientific research in the time of #Lysenko: #Lukianenko’s work began before #Lysenko’s rise and continued despite his dominance. #Lukianenko’s work relied substantially on plant varieties from outside the #USSR, in many cases brought into the #USSR through the work of #NikolaiVavilov. He also relied on conventional principles of genetics, including the guidelines for plant breeding published by #Vavilov, as well as some breeding theories and techniques from outside the #USSR. In particular he and his co-workers independently sought and achieved the same goals as the Italians around #Strampelli in the early 20th century and #Borlaug in the #GreenRevolution of the 1950s-1960s.

#Lukianenko’s work during #Lysenko’s time and afterwards produced several extremely important wheat varieties that had the same characteristics as the #GreenRevolution varieties created by #Borlaug. #Lukianenko’s Bezostaia-1, a semi-dwarf rust resistant HYV earned the highest praise from European and American breeders including #Borlaug as one of the best of the HYVs. This finding thus goes beyond even #Krementsov’s points about scientists’ evasion of #Lysenko. The work of #Lukianenko and his colleagues, more than simply continuing previous genetics-based work in plant breeding, achieved breakthroughs that put it at the forefront of world wheat breeding, both in their methods and their results. Because of the accomplishments of #Lukianenko and his co-workers in #Krasnodar, a post-Soviet Russian symposium on breeding of wheat and triticale commemorating #Lukianenko was entitled “The Green Revolution of P. P. Luk’ianenko.” (111) Thus despite #Lysenko, Soviet agronomists and #agriculture thus participated in the international #GreenRevolution under #Lysenko’s dominance as well as afterwards.

@howmanygenerations

...in order to save humanity, we must not only exponentially increase our efforts to decarbonize our society, but also to have a second #GreenRevolution.

Now I know, we have been messing with our oceans, too, maybe even beyond repair beyond the children of #GenerationAlpha, but maybe there is to solution to the food problem by focusing on #algae and the like:

https://mastodonapp.uk/@palmoildetectives/109662507433798809

In order to have that time, we must rediscover #agriculture by combining age-old...

While looking for a certain #GeneralStrike #Cat image, I came across this gem.
#ClimateStrike #MayDayStrike #Corporatism #Capitalism #Labor #Wages #LivingWage #ObsceneProfit #EarthStrike #GreenRevolution

Quite surprisingly Dr Vandana Shiva's #activism in SeedFreedom and in small-scale #farming, intersects with the #FreedomSoftware movement, in more ways than might be expected!

Again here's the link to her interview:
https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/569418-vandana-shiva-ecology-environment/

#nitrousOxide #climateCrisis #bigOil #fertiliser #fertilizer #urea #mIcrOSOft #bIlLgatEs #greenRevolution #fauxlanthopy #soil #water #fsf

RP de RNST

It’s time #greenrevolution 🐝
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