Green Revolution

The Green Revolution, or the Third Agricultural Revolution, is the set of research technology transfer initiatives occurring between 1950 and the late 1960s, that increased agricultural production worldwide, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s. The initiatives resulted in the adoption of new technologies, including high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of cereals, especially dwarf wheat and rice. It was associated with chemical fertilizers, agrochemicals, and controlled water-supply (usually involving irrigation) and newer methods of cultivation, including mechanization. All of these together were seen as a 'package of practices' to supersede 'traditional' technology and to be adopted as a whole.Both the Ford Foundation …

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WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization · 2 May 2024 English

Economic diversification is a tough process. It asks policymakers difficult questions about which areas to support, which not to support, and where untapped potential lies. It also requires the flexibility …

the motorcycle industry from golden age to green revolution 90 Introduction 90 Born from bikes: how


ICRIER: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations · 2 May 2024 English

In this context, the objective of the present study is to estimate the harvest and postharvest losses of wheat, paddy, maize, and soybean in India and to trace the determinants …

particularly evident since the advent of the green revolution in the 1960s. This paradigm shift has led gone through exceptional growth since the green revolution period of 1960s. The state has made tremendous across states and regions (Agarwal, 1983). Green revolution brought a package of tools to augment the and Binswanger,1992; Mishra, 2008). However, green revolution has crop-wise, region-wide differences in expansion of irrigation intensity and the green revolution package of HYV seed and fertilizer, the production


ADB: Asian Development Bank · 30 April 2024 English

Rice is a valuable crop for more than four billion people worldwide. Asia is the world’s leading rice producer.

source of income for smallholder farmers. The Green Revolution of the 1960s introduced new crop production benefited from the genetic improvements of the Green Revolution. Rice is one of the central essential food smallholder farmers depends on rice production. The Green Revolution has given the world a much-needed boost in


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 26 April 2024 English

Industrial policies pursued in many developing countries in the 1950s-1970s largely failed while the industrial policies of the Asian Miracles succeeded. We argue that a key factor of success is …

in the 1930s, and more recently Germany’s “green revolution” in the 2000s and 2010s. While the IRA relies


RIS: Research and Information System for Developing Countries · 25 April 2024 English

Emerging Scenario and the Need for Renewed Attention to the Agriculture Sector in the BIMSTEC Region In spite of its declining share in the GDP, agriculture continues to remain a …

been taken care of after the onset of the green revolution, the absolute size of the destitute in countries


ICRIER: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations · 19 April 2024 English

As applied nutrients, leads to nutrient per the latest estimates, about 1/3rd of the mining, i.e., depletion of the organic total land area and about 1/5th of the matter in …

India’s percent). It is noteworthy that data for green revolution was still unfolding. At Punjab is yet not further by the impacts of climate change. GREEN REVOLUTION AND GROUNDWATER Ultimately these challenges self-sufficiency after independence, the Green Revolution package played a India is categorized as a increased pressures in these At the epicenter of Green Revolution, states. Punjab, and Haryana, comprising only mills, Meerut). These trends indicate since green revolution (Taylor, 2019). over-dependence on hand-full


CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 18 April 2024 English

Despite embracing democracy, radical-right parties pose a significant challenge to the EU’s fundamental values. European leaders and institutions must address this challenge to safeguard democracy in the EU and ensure …

will not support the homorevolution, the green revolution, forced vaccinations, [or] the physical and


AU: African Union · 18 April 2024 English

The SIA sets the ambition to scale the implementation of science-based and locally adapted sustainable soil management practices and their impacts across Africa by taking a landscape approach to supporting …

Scope In September 2020, at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Forum (AGRF), the African Union Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health AGRF African Green Revolution Forum AUC African Union Commission AUDA African


AU: African Union · 18 April 2024 English

The 2024 Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health summit fully recognizes the opportunity for such win-win outcomes and emphasizes healthy soils as the foundation for sustainable and resilient agrifood systems needed …

Declaration on Fertilizer for the African Green Revolution. Today the challenges of food insecurity and


AU: African Union · 17 April 2024 English

Governments of the African Union endorsed the Abuja Declaration on Fertilizer for the Africa Green Revolution, a continental strategy to reverse the worrying trend of poor productivity of the African soils

Abuja Declaration on Fertilizer for the Africa Green Revolution, a continental strategy to reverse the worrying


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