The Green Revolution is not only a constellation of technologies and economic relationships. It is also, crucially, a story. So Aaron Eddens argues in the persuasive monograph Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa (University of California Press, 2024). While many books have critiqued the Green Revolution, Eddens offers both an unusually accessible entrée for readers new to this topic, and a trenchant analysis of the Green Revolution as discourse. In so doing, Eddens directs readers to the power wielded by stories, including incomplete and biased ones. Eddens details how the Green Revolution story Read more