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Baick, John S. "Cracks in the Foundation: Frederick T. Gates, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the China Medical Board." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 3, no. 1 (January 2004): 59–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781400000621.

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As his lengthy career neared an end, Rockefeller advisor Frederick T. Gates made a bold and unsuccessful proposal to the trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1924, asking them to invest $265 million in the China Medical Board. Founded in 1914, the China Medical Board (CMB) was one of the earliest ventures of the Rockefeller Foundation, the most prominent of the Progressive Era's giant secular philanthropic foundations. The CMB was also the last major philanthropic effort by Gates, the man most responsible for shifting the Rockefellers from denominational charity to international philanthropy. After a decade in existence, the CMB had not come close to realizing the hopes of its founder. Only with this massive, unprecedented infusion of capital, Gates explained, could his dream “spring into existence full panoplied.” This dream was never fully realized because of its astonishingly grandiose scale and complexity: its goal was to make Chinese medical care the finest in the world, and in the process close the chasm that he saw between denominational Christianity and the needs of the modern world. Although the story of the China Medical Board is the story of a failed vision, it also affords a glimpse of the cracks at the base of modern American philanthropy.
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Solórzano, Armando. "Sowing the Seeds of Neo-Imperialism: The Rockefeller Foundation's Yellow Fever Campaign in Mexico." International Journal of Health Services 22, no. 3 (July 1992): 529–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/xn07-tuvy-nkpt-wwp3.

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The Rockefeller Foundation's campaign against yellow fever in Mexico sought to advance the economic and political interests of U.S. capitalism. The campaign was implemented at a time of strong anti-American sentiments on the part of the Mexican people. With no diplomatic relationships between Mexico and the United States, the Rockefeller Foundation presented its campaign as an international commitment. Thus, Foundation doctors became the most salient U.S. diplomats. At the same time they made sure that the Mexican yellow fever would not spread to the United States through the southern border. The by-products of the campaign went beyond the political arena. Special techniques to combat the vectors allowed the Rockefeller Foundation's brigades to change the anti-American sentiments of the people. When the campaign ended, the Foundation had already set in place the foundation for the modern Mexican health care system. Benefits from the campaign also accrued to President Obregón, who used the campaign to strengthen his position of power. Mexican doctors adopting a pro-American attitude also allied with the Rockefeller Foundation to gain reputation and power within the emerging Mexican State.
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Palmer, Steven. "Toward Responsibility in International Health: Death following Treatment in Rockefeller Hookworm Campaigns, 1914–1934." Medical History 54, no. 2 (April 2010): 149–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025727300000223.

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Late in October 1926, a poor man from Bucamaranga, Colombia, wrote a letter to the richest man in the world. Juan de la Rosa Quintero Parra informed John D Rockefeller that his ten-year-old son, José Vicente, had “died suddenly as a result of a purge administered by the Bureau of Uncinariasis”, the local incarnation of the Rockefeller Foundation's global project to eradicate hookworm disease. The death of the boy, who worked full-time as a streetsweeper for the municipality, had been “a serious blow since he was the only one who contributed to the support of the family consisting of seven young children”. Having heard of Mr Rockefeller's generosity, Quintero appealed to him for assistance, thanked him in advance for the attention he would give to the matter, and hoped that Divine Providence would spare the great philanthropist's life for many years to come. He mailed the letter to Rockefeller Foundation headquarters at 61 Broadway in New York City, the same address where, probably unbeknownst to him, bits of his son's organs had been sent following a post-mortem. Quintero Parra's letter came to the attention of either the 84-year-old patriarch or his son, John D Rockefeller, Jr, the Foundation's president. Their executive secretary, F M Read was instructed to make inquiries into the death of the child, José Vicente Quintero.
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Jones, Greta. "The Rockefeller Foundation and medical education in Ireland in the 1920s." Irish Historical Studies 30, no. 120 (November 1997): 564–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400013456.

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In 1913 part of the enormous fortune of the American millionaire John D. Rockefeller was put aside for philanthropic and charitable purposes under the direction of the Rockefeller Foundation. Throughout the twentieth century the Rockefeller Foundation disbursed money to a wide range of economic, scientific and artistic projects. Among its interests were health and medical research, and Rockefeller invested funds in public health programmes throughout the world for the eradication of particular diseases or to strengthen the effectiveness of existing public health structures.The Rockefeller Foundation was also interested in providing aid for the reorganisation and modernisation of medical education. It was, however, loath to part with any of its monies unless it was assured of the political and social stability of a country, and also of the competence, honesty and good intentions of those to whom it entrusted funds. In order to assess this, the officers of the Rockefeller Foundation visited potential recipients. They reported back to the New York headquarters of the Foundation on the political and social background of the countries to which assistance might be given and also on the feasibility of the programmes of assistance devised to help them.
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Windholz, George, and J. R. Kuppers. "Pavlov and the Rockefeller foundation." Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science 23, no. 3 (July 1988): 107–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02701284.

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The Lancet. "Change at the Rockefeller Foundation." Lancet 368, no. 9548 (November 2006): 1623. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(06)69668-2.

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Putri, Sukma Ayu. "Philanthropy as a creative strategy for international development Case study: Rockefeller foundation initiative's for AGRA." Jurnal Hubungan Internasional 11, no. 1 (November 1, 2018): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jhi.v11i1.8962.

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The Rockefeller Foundation has introduced itself a global philanthropic organization (foundation) and ‘old players’ in philanthropy’s arena. This idea has continued since existing of The Rockefeller Foundation in 1913 until now. This paper discusses about how philanthropy is taken over as a creative and effective strategy to realized development goals in the developing countries. One of the most influential philanthropic organizations in global arena is The Rockefeller Foundation, this foundation have so many strategic plan to accelerate development in the developing countries, such as their support on the ‘Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)’ that began in 2006. This program has become a creative strategy to realized food security and economic improvement in Africa.
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Tallberg, Marianne. "Venny Snellman, Finnish Nurses, and Rockefeller Foundation Support, 1929–1956." Nursing History Review 14, no. 1 (September 2006): 175–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1062-8061.14.175.

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This paper describes how the Rockefeller Foundation finally came to take an interest in Finland. All sources point to the same conclusion: it was the Finnish nursing leader Venny Snellman who opened the door for the cooperation between Finland’s healthcare organizations and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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IBER, PATRICK. "The Cold War Politics of Literature and the Centro Mexicano de Escritores." Journal of Latin American Studies 48, no. 2 (December 11, 2015): 247–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x15001492.

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AbstractThis article describes the relationship of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, Mexico's most important writing centre in the second half of the twentieth century, to the US foundations that funded it. The Centre was founded by a North American writer, Margaret Shedd, with the financial support of the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation understood the Centre as a ‘Pan-American’ effort to improve relations between the United States and Mexico by bringing its writers closer together. Later, there were also contributions from two CIA fronts, the Farfield Foundation and the Congress for Cultural Freedom, to the Centre and its star graduate, Juan Rulfo. However, this article argues that none of the US foundations realised the ambitions that they had for the Centre. Through a process of ‘Mexicanised Americanisation', a project that had elements of Yankee cultural imperialism produced instead one of the world's finest writing centres, but without any clear political benefit for the United States.
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GORDON, LEONARD A. "Wealth Equals Wisdom? The Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in India." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 554, no. 1 (November 1997): 104–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716297554001007.

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Two giants of American philanthropy, the Rockefeller and Ford foundations, have had a complicated history in South Asia. The sources are considerable, but mainly on the grant-giver side, with little attention to the impact of the grants. The Rockefeller Foundation started its grants to India in 1916 and through 1947 worked mainly in the field of medicine. Later it broadened its interests to include agriculture and humanities. It curtailed most of its India interest in 1973. The Ford Foundation entered India in the 1950s. Douglas Ensminger, its representative, became the most powerful foreign representative of the foundation, calling himself a “change agent” and enjoying unusual access to Prime Minister Nehru. He presided over the expansion of Ford Foundation technical assistance, with over 100 foreigners working for it in India by 1970. Thereafter it decided to cut the number of foreigners working in India and change its mode of operation to one of grant giver. The golden age of the foundations was in the 1950s and 1960s, when they played a most important role; thereafter significant changes occurred.
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Ma, Qiusha. "The Rockefeller Foundation and modern medical education in China, 1915-1951." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1995. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/send-pdf.cgi?acc%5Fnum=case1062681608.

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Long, Erin. "The Rockefeller Foundation and the public's perception of its trustworthiness, 1911-1913." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 114 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1338866241&sid=20&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Dufour, M. (Maurice). "Foundations as unofficial policymakers : the role of the Rockefeller, Carnegie and Ford Foundations on education in developing countries." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66155.

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Yrjälä, Ann. "Public health and Rockefeller wealth : alliances strategies in the early formation of Finnish public health nursing /." Åbo : Åbo Akademi University Press, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40236478x.

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Kobayashi, Elizabete Mayumy. "Eugenia e Fundação Rockefeller no Brasil : a saude como instrumento de regeneração nacional." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/287000.

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Resumo: Eugenia: heterogênea e complexa. Da conceituação do termo pelo inglês Francis Galton no século XVIII, até o advento do nazismo, sua expressão mais radical, o movimento possuiu características distintas. Neste trabalho, buscamos observar uma outra faceta do movimento mundial: a peculiaridade da eugenia brasileira ao defender a regeneração de um povo, não condenado pelo clima ou pela raça, mas doente. Nesse contexto destacamos um novo elemento: a presença da Fundação Rockefeller. Nosso argumento baseia-se no fato de que nas duas primeiras décadas do século XX, a eugenia, em terras brasileiras, era sinônimo de saneamento e higiene. A Fundação Rockefeller, por sua vez, teve atuação marcante no campo da saúde pública, especialmente naquilo que se relacionava ao saneamento e ao combate às doenças que assolavam tanto as áreas urbanas como as rurais. A chegada da fundação norte-americana ao Brasil foi marcada pela negociação, já que o país possuía uma tradição médica que se consolidava. Ao mesmo tempo, podemos defender que a Fundação foi também ¿capturada¿ pela eugenia brasileira, que nesse período se confundia com saúde pública. Palavras-chave: Eugenia, Fundação Rockefeller, Saúde Pública
Abstract: Eugenics: heterogeneous and complex: since the conception of the term with Francis Galton in the 18th century, until the advent of the nazism, its more radical expression, the movement presented different characteristics. In this work, we try to observe another side of the worldwide movement: the peculiarity of the Brazilian eugenics by defending the regeneration of a nation, that was not condemned by the climate or the race, but was sick. In this context we take a new element: the presence of the Rockefeller Foundation. Our argument is based on the fact that in the two first decades of the 20th century, eugenics in Brazil meant sanitation and hygiene. The Rockefeller Foundation was a leader in the field of public health, specially in things related to sanitation and in fighting against diseases that were devastating the urban as much as the rural areas. The coming of the north american Foundation to Brazil was marked by negotiation, since the country had a medical tradition that was increasing by that time. At the same time we claim the idea that the Foundation was also "captured" by the Brazilian eugenics that in this period was confounded with public health. Key-words: Eugenics, Rockefeller Foundation, Public Health
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Stuart, Annie. "Parasites lost? The Rockefeller Foundation and the expansion of health services in the colonial South Pacific, 1916-1939." Thesis, University of Canterbury. History, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1023.

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A mix of economic interests, humanitarianism, and political concerns over future regional security and stability drove twentieth century attempts to counter indigenous morbidity and depopulation in the Pacific. However, chronic under-resourcing impeded colonial health developments. An opportunity for change came in 1913, when the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation negotiated with the British Colonial Office for joint programmes to control hookworm disease in Britain's tropical dependencies. After surveying the health situation and potential for work in the Pacific region in 1916, a short-lived campaign followed in Fiji (1917-1918). The American philanthropy then focused on Australia, where co-operative hookworm programmes advanced the objectives of the Foundation and increased Federal involvement in public health while and also served the interests of "White Australia". Under Dr. Sylvester Lambert, work in the Island Pacific resumed in 1920, to promote the health and economic viability ofindigenous labour in the Australian territories of Papua and New Guinea. Plantation interests supported survey and treatment work in the British Solomon Island Protectorate, and in 1922 the Fiji campaign re-opened. Lambert expanded the International Health Board's involvement from initial hookworm survey and treatment programmes in the British and New Zealand dependencies in the South Pacific, into other aspects of public health and medical services: water supplies and latrines; a bacteriological laboratory in Suva; hospital expansion; and medical education. Integrating local initiatives, Lambert advocated a Unified Pacific Medical Service, in which key elements were centralisation., rationalisation and affordability. The most radical aspect of his plan was the development of a Central Medical School for the Pacific territories, to provide targeted professional training for indigenous medical practitioners who had a crucial (although still subservient) role in economic service delivery and the diffusion of biomedical understanding among local communities. Also controversial - and Jess successful - were attempts to improve the career opportunities and standard of European Medical Officers, by creating a single medical service for the British Pacific dependencies. Attempts to achieve these goals influenced the shape and outcome of health and medical services which developed in the different island communities by 1939, when Lambert's retirement signalled an end to active Rockefeller Foundation involvement. This thesis examrnes the ways in which colonial administrations, medical staff, the Rockefeller Foundation, labour and mission interests, and Pacific Islanders interacted in the introduction of the dramatically new medical concepts and practices of western science (and specifically tropical medicine) and their effect on indigenous populations.
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Lacerda, Aline Lopes de. "A fotografia nos arquivos: a produção de documentos fotográficos da Fundação Rockefeller durante o combate à febre amarela no Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-11092008-145559/.

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Este trabalho analisa a natureza e as características das fotografias enquanto documentos integrantes de arquivos institucionais. Partindo do questionamento sobre o tratamento de fotografias pertencentes a arquivos históricos, o trabalho investiga a trajetória do documento fotográfico como objeto teórico e metodológico na área da arquivística, com base na análise de alguns de seus principais manuais e textos metodológicos. Analisando o enfoque tradicional aplicado às fotografias, discute a problemática do documento fotográfico desenvolvida mais contemporaneamente à luz do referencial teórico da Diplomática. O trabalho utilizase de um estudo de caso, o arquivo fotográfico gerado a partir das atividades da Fundação Rockefeller e do Serviço Nacional de Febre Amarela nos anos de 1930 e 1940 durante os estudos, pesquisas e combate à febre amarela no Brasil. Esse estudo pretende, por um lado, investigar a contextualização da produção do arquivo de imagens como forma de entendimento do contexto funcional responsável pelo surgimento dos documentos visuais e, por outro, afirmar o caráter arquivístico do documento fotográfico, considerando suas peculiaridades. Aos que organizam os arquivos, cabe a tarefa de investigar e tornar explícitos tanto o contexto de produção quanto os vínculos que ligam as imagens às funções ao longo de sua trajetória como documento, para que haja uma transformação no enfoque reservado a esses materiais, calcado na valorização exclusiva de seu conteúdo informativo, em detrimento do seu valor como evidência das ações para as quais foram gerados e utilizados.
This thesis proposes an analysis of the nature and characteristics of photography as part of institutional archives documents. From the questioning about the treatment given to photographies of historical archives, the work seeks to investigate the journey of the photographic document as object of theoretical and methodological questioning in the archival field, based on examination of some of its main manuals and methodological texts. Analyzing the traditional approach applied to photography, discusses the problematic of photographic document developed contemporaneously in the light of Diplomatics theoretical reference. The thesis adopts a case study, the photographic archive generated from activities of study, research and combat of yellow fever in Brazil, by the partnership between Rockefeller Foundation and the Brazilian National Service of Yellow Fever, during the Thirties and Forties. The present study proposes, on the one hand, to investigate the contextualization of the production of image archives as means of understanding the functional context responsible for the appearance of visual documents and, on the other hand, asseverates the archival nature of photographic documents, according to its peculiarities. To those who organize the archives, is assigned the task of investigating and making explicit both the context of the production and the bonds that links images to functions during their journey as document, in order to produce a transformation of the approach reserved to these materials, based on the sole valuation of it\'s informative contents in prejudice of it\'s value as evidence of actions for which have been created and used.
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Argueta, Prado Jorge Quetzal. "Des modernisations multiples. Modeler le secteur agricole au Mexique dans la première moitié du XXe siècle." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0191.

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La filière agricole a connu de profondes transformations au Mexique dans la première moitié du XXe siècle. Entre 1910 et 1960 la modernisation agricole s´est placée dans le débat public comme une nécessité incontournable. Tant pour affronter le problème des famines que le pays a connu dans le cadre de la Révolution (1910-1920) comme pour encourager l´essor de l´économie dans son ensemble, les différentes administrations à la tête du pouvoir ont cherché à rationaliser et intensifier la production agricole. Notamment la production de maïs qui, par son importance économique et alimentaire, a été une des cultures prioritaires. Dans ce cadre notre thèse porte sur les différentes stratégies et moyens engagées à cette fin, ainsi que sur les effets qu´elles ont produit. Nous examinons les efforts engagés par différents type d´acteurs pour gouverner et modeler la filière à l´aide de semences améliorés, d´engrais et de machinerie agricole ; aussi bien que par la mise en œuvre de politiques d´éducation, d´irrigation et de crédit parmi d´autres. Ce à travers l´analyse de sources historiques trouvées dans des archives mexicaines et étasuniennes, qui nous ont permis de saisir tantôt la perspective et travaux engagés dans ce sens par le gouvernement, comme par d´autres acteurs issus du milieu académique et privé. Par ce biais nous montrons que bien que la modernisation agricole ait été une idée et un programme globalement partagé par les différents gouvernements le long de cette période, les modalités qu´elle a adopté n´ont pas été homogènes. Que les objectifs particuliers que chaque gouvernement s´est donné et les savoir-faire et possibilités techniques disponibles à chaque moment ont été à la base des différents projets de modernisation qui ont pris place et modelé la filière. Et que l´ensemble du processus a été façonné par l´entrecroisement de divers intérêts, institutions, agents et savoir-faire locaux, nationaux et transnationaux
The Mexican agricultural sector experienced profound transformations in the first half of the twentieth century. Between 1910 and 1960 agricultural modernization was placed in the public debate as an unavoidable necessity. Both to overcome the famine problem the country experienced in the context of the Revolution (1910-1920), as well as to boost the economic growth, the different state administrations sought to rationalize and intensify the agricultural production. In particular the production of maize which, due to its economic and social importance, was one of the priority crops. In this context, our thesis focuses on the various strategies and means deployed to this end, as well as on the effects they produced. We examine the efforts made by different types of actors to govern and shape the agricultural sector by using improved seeds, fertilizers and agricultural machinery ; as well as through the implementation of educational, irrigation and credit policies among others. This through the analysis of historical sources found in Mexican and US archives, that brought us closer to the perspective and work done by the government agencies as well as to the initiatives issued from the academic and private sector. In this way we show that although agricultural modernization was an idea and a program widely shared by the different governments during this period, the modalities it adopted were not homogeneous. That the specific objectives each government set itself and the know-how and technical possibilities available at each moment, were at the basis of the different modernization projects that took place and shaped the sector. And that the whole process was shaped by the interweaving of various local, national and transnational interests, institutions, agents and know-how
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Fenzi, Marianna. "« Provincialiser » la Révolution Verte : savoirs, politiques et pratiques de la conservation de la biodiversité cultivée (1943-2015)." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0143.

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Le problème de l’accès aux ressources génétiques des plantes pour la sélection variétale est au cœur de la Révolution Verte. A partir des années 1960, les sélectionneurs font de la disparition des variétés locales sous l’effet de la diffusion de nouvelles variétés génétiquement homogènes un problème public à l’échelle mondiale. Dans une perspective qui croise la recherche d’archives et l’enquête de terrain, cette thèse revient sur la formation de ce problème, sur sa trajectoire historique et ses enjeux actuels. Il s’agit d’analyser l’hétérogénéité des savoirs scientifiques et des approches qui sont développés sur le thème de la conservation des ressources génétiques dans les arènes internationales. L’étude des débats et des initiatives menés dans le cadre de la FAO permet de comprendre quels sont les savoirs légitimés, lesquels sont marginalisés et comment la nature et les contours du problème ont été négociés. La place que les ressources génétiques occupent au cours d’épisodes clés de la Révolution Verte est également au cœur de ce travail. Cette thèse analyse spécifiquement l’importance accordée aux variétés locales de maïs dans le programme agricole que la Fondation Rockefeller met en place au Mexique à partir de 1943. Alors que le maïs hybride est généralement présenté comme un vecteur de la modernisation agricole, cette thèse montre que les experts sont confrontés à l’échec du paradigme d’amélioration variétale qu’ils étaient censés exporter. Face à une innovation uniquement applicable à une échelle très limitée, les semences paysannes du maïs restent l’option variétale la plus utilisée au Mexique. Ce travail montre que ce sont bien les choix pragmatiques des agriculteurs qui constituent le fondement de la conservation, de facto, des ressources génétiques du maïs dans ce pays
The issue of access to plant genetic resources for plant breeding is at the heart of the Green Revolution. Beginning in the 1960s, the disappearance of local varieties with the spread of new genetically homogeneous varieties evolved into a public problem on a global scale. Combining archival research and field investigations, this thesis explores the emergence of this problem, its historical trajectory, and its current forms. I analyze the heterogeneity of scientific knowledge and approaches to the conservation of genetic resources developed in international arenas. An exploration of debates and initiatives within the framework of the FAO sheds light on the issues of which knowledges are legitimated and which marginalized, and on how the nature and outlines of the problem have been negotiated. An examination of the role of genetic resources in key episodes in the Green Revolution is also central to the study. The thesis specifically analyzes the importance attributed to local maize varieties in the agricultural program that the Rockefeller Foundation implemented in Mexico beginning in 1943. While hybrid maize is generally presented as a vector of agricultural modernization, this thesis shows how experts were faced with the failure of the varietal improvement paradigm that they were supposed to export. As hybrid maize is an innovation that is only applicable on a very limited scale, farmers’ maize seeds still are the most widely used varietal option in Mexico. The study shows that it is indeed the pragmatic choices of farmers that form the basis for the de facto conservation of the country’s maize genetic resources
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Stevens, Marianne Pauline Fedunkiw. "Dollars and change, the effect of Rockefeller Foundation funding on Canadian medical education at the University of Toronto, McGill University, and Dalhousie University." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ49913.pdf.

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Books on the topic "Rockefeller Foundation"

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Fosdick, Raymond Blaine. The story of the Rockefeller Foundation. New Brunswick, [N.J.], U.S.A: Transaction Publishers, 1989.

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Dugac, Željko. Protiv bolesti i neznanja: Rockefellerova fondacija u međuratnoj Jugoslaviji. Zagreb: Srednja Europa, 2005.

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Dugac, Željko. Protiv bolesti i neznanja: Rockefellerova fondacija u međuratnoj Jugoslaviji. Zagreb: Srednja Europa, 2005.

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Becker, William H. Innovative partners: The Rockefeller Foundation and Thailand. New York: The Rockefeller Foundation, 2013.

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Hewa, Soma. Colonialism, tropical disease, and imperial medicine: Rockefeller philanthropy in Sri Lanka. Lanham: University Press of America, 1995.

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1945-, Schneider William H., ed. Rockefeller philanthropy and modern biomedicine: International initiatives from World War I to the Cold War. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002.

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Marcos, Cueto, ed. Missionaries of science: The Rockefeller Foundation and Latin America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.

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Palmer, Steven Paul. Launching global health: The Caribbean odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010.

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Palmer, Steven Paul. Launching global health: The Caribbean odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010.

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Faria, Lina Rodrigues de. Saúde e política: A Fundação Rockefeller e seus parceiros em São Paulo. Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Editora Fiocruz, 2007.

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von Mueller, Camillo, Wim Van Opstal, Christopher S. Biggers, Andras Kelen, Bryan T. Froehle, Sue Crawford, Sabina Schnell, et al. "Rockefeller Foundation." In International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, 1328–29. New York, NY: Springer US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93996-4_452.

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Kilby, Patrick. "The Rockefeller Foundation." In Philanthropic Foundations in International Development, 19–50. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003162889-2.

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Engelking, Anna. "Under the Wing of the Rockefeller Foundation." In Bronisław Malinowski and His Legacy in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities, 140–58. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003449768-12.

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Knowles, John H. "The Means to the Ends of the Rockefeller Foundation." In Ciba Foundation Symposium 30 - The Future of Philanthropic Foundations, 87–98. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470720127.ch9.

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Moran, Michael. "Philanthropic Foundations and Global Health Partnership Formation: The Rockefeller Foundation and IAVI." In Health for Some, 118–29. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230244399_8.

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"A New Foundation." In Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada, 197–202. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780773572690-009.

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"Enter the Rockefeller Foundation." In Egypt's Other Wars, 77–95. Syracuse University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.7794638.12.

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"Foundation Grants in Canada, 1911–1950." In Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada, 209–12. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780773572690-011.

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Kiger, Joseph C. "Peabody, Sage, Carnegie, and Rockefeller." In Philanthropists & Foundation Globalization, 13–38. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315126340-2.

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Olsson, Tore C. "Rockefeller Rural Development." In Agrarian Crossings. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691165202.003.0005.

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This chapter examines the Rockefeller philanthropies' winding road into Mexico, beginning at the dawn of the twentieth century and culminating in the establishment of the Mexican Agricultural Program in 1943. The chapter opens with the General Education Board's early and quixotic attempt to overcome rural poverty in the US Cotton Belt, exploring the competing visions that fractured its campaign. Measured by its lofty rhetoric, that program was undeniably a failure. Still, during the agrarian ferment of the 1930s, an unexpected alliance of US southern reformers—led notably by ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels—pushed the Rockefeller Foundation to replicate its earlier efforts in Mexico. By 1943, when the foundation formally partnered with the Mexican government to work in agricultural reform, that push would reach its successful climax.
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Conference papers on the topic "Rockefeller Foundation"

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Esteban, Theresa Audrey O. "Mind the gap. Stakeholders perspective on resilience building in the City of." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/eebi3270.

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In 2016 the City of Rotterdam joined the 100 Resilient Cities of The Rockefeller Foundation. The 100 Resilient Cities is an initiative emphasizing the need for cities to build resilience. Rotterdam was one of the first to heed the call of the 100 Resilient Cities highlighting the city’s position as a frontrunner in addressing climate adaptive urban planning projects and innovative means in dealing with flood risks and vulnerabilities. Learning from the great North Sea flood of 1953 disaster experience, the Netherlands ensured strong preventive measures making the country safe from flooding. The City of Rotterdam benefits from these strong preventive measures as this safeguards the city and the biggest and most important port in Europe from any disaster. However, these strong preventive measure have also muted the concept of resilience on the stakeholders. This is also further weighed down by the many different initiatives present in the city. The paper seeks to investigate the institutional and non-institutional actors perspective on resilience and the environmental threats in the City of Rotterdam. The research assumes that knowledge and experience on Rotterdam’s environmental vulnerabilities and threats lead to better collaboration between and among stakeholders in making the city resilient. This knowledge and experience also leads to the mutual adaptation of roles between the government and other stakeholders of the city such as the citizens, businesses, academe, civil society organizations among others. The research explores questions related to stakeholders perception on risk and vulnerability of the city to disasters, disaster awareness and concern, and their definition of resilience and a resilient city.
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McCambly, Heather. "Coordinating Closure: The Role of Abraham Flexner, the American Medical Association, and the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations in Restricting Access to Medical Education (Poster 25)." In 2024 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/2107059.

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Reports on the topic "Rockefeller Foundation"

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Unni, Samir. Molecular Missionaries. New Science, August 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56416/480pmz.

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Armeni, Andrea, and Miguel Ferreyra de Bone. Innovations in Financing Structures for Impact Enterprises: Spotlight on Latin America: Summary. Inter-American Development Bank, March 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006050.

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Typical financing structures based on debt or equity are often inappropriate for early-stage impact enterprises. Due to potential conflicts between the investor's expectations of returns and the entrepreneur's commitment to their mission, impact entrepreneurs have a difficult time securing the right kind of capital for their specific needs. As a result, many fail to get off the ground due to this capital gap. Commissioned by the Multilateral Investment Fund with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, this summary of Transform Finance's upcoming report provides an overview of the specific problems with traditional financing structures, the innovations happening now in investment funds and deal structures to alleviate the capital gap, and recommendations for how fund managers, investors, and entrepreneurs can engage with these alternatives to increase their impact.
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