Sowing War, Reaping Peace: United Nations Resource Development Programs in the Republic of Korea, 1950–1953

Brady, Lisa M.

doi:10.1017/s0021911817001334

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“…6 Thus, the 1962 monopolization of chemical fertilizer supply was not only based on the local "belief in scientific management of natural resources" continuing from the previous periods but also was part of the global belief in increasing agricultural productivity based on technological solutions. 7 The new supply system impacted local farmers. For farmers, using agricultural technology was not limited to the pursuit of high crop yield.…”

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Preparatory labor for chemical fertilizer: Rural modernity and the practices of South Korean farmers in the 1960s

Lee

2023

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This article examines preparatory labor practices that South Korean farmers had to undertake to use chemical fertilizers in the 1960s. Preparatory labor, such as learning about and acquiring fertilizers, that came prior to the use of chemical fertilizer in the field was mundane and often invisible. However, it was this logistical and emotional labor that was essential for the maintenance of South Korea’s chemical fertilizer system. In the system, which was part of the government’s efforts to establish rural modernity through increased crop productivity, the state looked down on farmers as the subject of edification. Nevertheless, the farmers were crucial maintainers of the state-led agricultural reform, realizing the government’s vision of modernity. To reveal the hidden relationship between farmers, technology, and the state, this article extensively uses diaries written by two farmers – Yoon Heesoo from Daecheon Village and Shin Kwonsik from Daegok Village. By doing so, this article aims to shed light on the voices of farmers and their roles in the agricultural reform of 1960s South Korea and, more broadly, of the Green Revolution.

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Preparatory labor for chemical fertilizer: Rural modernity and the practices of South Korean farmers in the 1960s

Lee

2023

Hist Sci

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“…1 Long before Rachel Carson penned Silent Spring, the works of Annales historians such as Marc Bloch, Emmanuel Le Roy Laudurie, and Fernand Braudel addressed intertwining relationships between society, agriculture, climate, and geography over the longue durée of medieval and early modern European history. 2 For such historians, the environment served as a powerful explanatory vehicle, a material structure through which the totality of human history could be understood. In the United States, environmental history grew out of a particular American interest in "wilderness" and frontier expansion.…”

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