Publications de Marianna Fenzi

La Oficina de Estudios Especiales y la Revolución Verde 80 años después

2023

“Maize in its center of origin (1943-2023): How a crop becomes a political object and an environment-making agent?”

2023

Community seed network in an era of climate change: dynamics of maize diversity in Yucatán, Mexico

Local seed systems remain the fundamental source of seeds for many crops in developing countries. Climate resilience for small holder farmers continues to depend largely on locally available seeds of traditional crop varieties. High rainfall events can hav ...

2022

Constructing Seed Boundaries: Foundation and Evolution of Scientific Conceptions and Practices of Crop Diversity from the Green Revolution to date

Marianna Fenzi

During the Green Revolution, the disappearance of landraces with the spread of new genetically homogeneous varieties evolved into a global public problem. This “genetic erosion” endangered the future of plant breeding and, thus, of food security. The use a ...

2022

Moving beyond grand narratives and stigmatizations: provincializing the Green Revolution from Mexican fields

Marianna Fenzi

With the dissolution of the agricultural projects that the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) was leading in China in 1940, it is in Mexico that a new testing ground for development programs based on the dissemination of new agronomic knowledge opens up. Science ...

2022

Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on agrobiodiversity, organization of farm work and food security in Mexican rural areas

Marianna Fenzi

Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on agrobiodiversity, organization of farm work and food security in Mexican rural areas. COVID-19 has hit Mexico very hard, forcing the Mexican government to institute lockdowns. The lockdown reduced employment opportunities and ...

2022

When the ‘periphery is the center’ and the ‘last shall be first’: plant genetic diversity and rural development in the Americas

Marianna Fenzi

2022

The Green Revolution in Mexico

Marianna Fenzi

2022

Lessons for the Organic Seed Movement from International Perspectives

Marianna Fenzi

2022

Growing maize landraces in industrialized countries: from the search for seeds to the emergence of new practices and values

Marianna Fenzi

In industrialized countries, maize cultivation is mainly associated with the use of hybrid varieties and input-intensive monocultures. Despite the homogeneity of European maize landscapes, alternative models of maize production based on landraces exist. Un ...

2022