The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops

The Government of Beans is about the rough edges of environmental regulation, where tenuous state power and blunt governmental instruments encounter ecological destruction and social injustice. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Paraguay was undergoing dramatic economic, political, and environmental change due to a boom in the global demand for soybeans. Although the country's massive new soy monocrop brought wealth, it also brought deforestation, biodiversity loss, rising inequality and violence. Kregg Hetherington traces well-meaning attempts by bureaucrats and activists to regulate the destructive force of monocrops, only to discover that the tools of modern government are at best inadequate to deal with the complex harms of modern agriculture, at worst complicit in making them worse. The book simultaneously tells a local story of people, plants, and government; a regional story of the rise and fall of Latin America's new left; and a story of the Anthropocene write large, about long-term, paradoxical consequences of destroying ecosystems in the name of human welfare.

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