Questão FC170954
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
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).
The presence of inverted commas (“) in “primitive” and “backward” indicate that the authors agree with the descriptions used by imperial authorities to define some specific peoples.
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Comentário: A afirmação está errada porque o uso de aspas em “primitive” e “backward” indica que os autores estão questionando e criticando esses rótulos, em vez de concordar com eles. As aspas sugerem que essas descrições são problemáticas e refletem a perspectiva colonial que desmerece os povos, mostrando que os autores reconhecem a injustiça e a imprecisão dessas definições. Assim, a intenção é evidenciar a crítica a essas visões estereotipadas e não endossá-las.
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