The Green Revolution has often been portrayed as a homogenizing force, whose innovations were expected to displace all alternatives. Without denying its transformative effects and based on archival and ethnographic research, this paper seeks to move beyond the epic narrative of agricultural modernization to uncover its continuities, tensions, and plural trajectories. Focusing on the Mexican Agricultural Program (MAP), this study explores how agricultural modernization offered a way to depoliticize agrarian reform through technoscientific solutions. In a second part, I shift attention to farmers in Yucatan, moving beyond their portrayal as “the dominated” to explore the pragmatic choices guiding their seed management, often upholding local seed systems and sustaining biodiversity. Join us in 4A20

On October 31st from 12.00 – 13.00 we are joined by Marianna Fenzi (univ. of Lausanne) for a talk titled “Beyond the Epics of the Green Revolution: Internal Critiques and Alternative Visions”. Marianna Fenzi is a social scientist with a PhD in History of Science and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Alongside her historical research, she has conducted ethnographic and ethnobotanical studies at the French National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRAE), Biodiversity International, and the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.