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Many studies reveal the contributions of plant breeding and agronomy to farm productivity and their role in reshaping global diets. However, historical accounts also implicate thes

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CEBRASPE (CESPE) · 2025

Many studies reveal the contributions of plant breeding and agronomy to farm productivity and their role in reshaping global diets. However, historical accounts also implicate these sciences in the creation of new problems, from novel disease vulnerabilities propagated through industrial monocrops to the negative ecological and public health consequences of crops dependent on chemical inputs and industrialized food systems more generally.

Increasingly, historical analyses also highlight the expertise variously usurped, overlooked, abandoned, or suppressed in the pursuit of “modern” agricultural science. Experiment stations and “improved” plants were instruments of colonialism, means of controlling lands and lives of peoples typically labeled as “primitive” and “backward” by imperial authorities. In many cases, the assumptions of colonial improvers persisted in the international development programs that have sought since the mid-20th century to deliver “modern” science to farming communities in the Global South.

Awareness of these issues has brought alternative domains of crop science such as agroecology to the fore in recent decades, as researchers reconcile the need for robust crop knowledge and know-how with the imperatives of addressing social and environmental injustice.

Helen Anne Curry; Ryan Nehring. The history of crop science and the future of food. Internet: <nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com>   (adapted).

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Even though the authors acknowledge the benefits brought to humanity by plant breeding and agronomy, they present a critical view about some aspects of this development, such as the effects of colonialism.
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Comentário: A afirmação está correta, pois o texto reconhece as contribuições positivas da seleção de plantas e da agronomia para a produtividade agrícola e a alimentação global, mas também critica os problemas gerados por essas práticas, especialmente no contexto colonial. Os autores ressaltam como as ciências agrícolas modernas, muitas vezes, ignoraram ou oprimiram conhecimentos tradicionais e locais, utilizando experimentos e plantas "melhoradas" como instrumentos de controle sobre comunidades rotuladas como "primitivas". Essa análise crítica evidencia a dualidade das inovações científicas, que, embora benéficas, também estão ligadas a injustiças sociais e ambientais, especialmente no Global Sul.

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