Historian of science who has written extensively on the history of the Green Revolution — examining both its achievements and the political and institutional context that shaped it.
Green Revolution historiography: Baranski's work situates Borlaug's wheat breeding within the Cold War political economy — documenting how the Rockefeller Foundation, USAID, and the Ford Foundation shaped agricultural research priorities, and how the 'miracle wheat' narrative obscured more complex realities (farmer adoption patterns, input requirements, land tenure issues). Contributes to the revisionist history of development interventions that examines the politics of scientific 'solutions.'
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