MAKING PEACE WITH THE EARTH - INDIGENOUS AGRICULTURE AND THE GREEN-REVOLUTION

Since its inception in the years following World War II, the green rev olution has been defended, not just as a technical program designed to alleviate world hunger, but on moral grounds as a program to achieve world peace. In this paper, I dispute the moral claim to a politics of peace, arguing instead that the green revolution is warist in its tre atment of the environment and indigenous communities, and that the agr icultural practices that the green revolution was designed to supplant -principally indigenous women's agriculture-are forms of ecological pe acemaking, akin to pacifism. I argue, as well, that the warist intenti ons of the green revolution are characteristic of a form of domination called developmentalism. A complete understanding of domination neces sitates linking developmentalism with other forms of domination such a s racism, sexism, and naturism.