Graduate Research: Diana Mendez Rojas on Agricultural Knowledge in Mexico (1940-1980)

Scottish Centre for Global History by University of Dundee

Episode notes

Diana Mendez Rojas shares her doctoral research on the growth agricultural knowledge in Mexico between 1940-1980. She focuses on fellowship winners, from the Rockefeller Foundation, and how their graduate experiences across the world influenced Mexico's knowledge and agricultural practice. Diana also talks about how this history links to the Green Revolution and Mexico's role in this development.