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Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.

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The Transformation of the Mexican Agricultural Program: From Experiment into Ideology

January 1, 2013

During the 2012-2013 grant period, I used the Rockefeller Archive Center's (RAC) generous grant-in-aid to develop my research on the efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) to modernize agriculture in Mexico during the early years of the cold war. The aim of this research was to understand how the Mexican Agricultural Program (MAP) operated on the ground. Most scholarship on this and other "green revolution" programs during the postwar era has taken executive-level planning and discourse as representing the actual efforts and their effects in local communities. However, by reexamining the local interactions between scientists and other aid workers and their target communities, my work seeks to open up our understanding of the relations between so-called first and third world states in the cold war context.

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