scholarly journals Two Blades of Grass: The Impact of the Green Revolution

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Gollin ◽  
Casper Worm Hansen ◽  
Asger Wingender
Keyword(s):  
Green Revolution ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Pastoreo extensivo en un pueblo de Soria: Etnografía de un mundo en extinción

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-56
Author(s):  
Anna Mata Romeu
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Cultivation Systems ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Historia De Vida ◽  
The Impact

El artículo ofrece datos sobre el pastoreo extensivo y sobre los sistemas de cultivo y las formas de vida hasta los años 70 en Torreandaluz, un pueblo del suroeste soriano. Se fundamenta en una etnografía llevada a cabo entre mediados de 2015 y la actualidad. Está basada en la observación participante, la historia de vida de un pastor de Torreandaluz y entrevistas informales a agricultores y pastores jubilados del lugar. Pretende ofrecer una visión sobre el impacto que sobre las formas de agricultura y ganadería ovina extensiva, así como sobre las formas de vida, tuvo la llegada de las técnicas de la llamada Revolución Verde. The article offers data on extensive shepherding, cultivation systems and lifestyles up to the 1970s, in Torreandaluz, a village in the southwest of Soria province. It is based on an ethnography carried out from the middle of 2015 until today. The participant observation, the life story of a shepherd of Torreandaluz and informal interviews with farmers and retired shepherds of the place made up this study. It intends to offer a vision about the impact that the arrival of the techniques of the so-called Green Revolution had on agriculture and extensive sheep farming, as well as on forms of life.

scholarly journals PROSPEK TEKNOLOGI REMEDIASI LAHAN KRITIS DENGAN ASAM HUMAT (Humic Acid)

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Untung Suwahyono
Keyword(s):  
Soil Structure ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Impact Resistance ◽  
Systemic Impact ◽  
Contamination Levels ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Met Expectations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Systemic Degradation

The green revolution in the 19th century, has met expectations in an effort to increase the productivity of food supply, in the world at least in Indonesia. In the course of time the green revolution movement has given the systemic impact not only on the degradation of ecosystems, but also the productivity of land, especially paddy fields due to the use of agrochemicals that have been over threshold. The impact on soil in Indonesia become ill, there is a change of soil structure, become poorer and finally lost as the land carrying capacity of production. Systemic Degradation covering 18 000 ha of wetland, contamination levels of heavy metals such as Hg, Fe, Cd, Cu has been on conditions that endanger human health also pesticide has an impact resistance to pests.Recovery efforts of agricultural land, will take time, and cost is not cheap. Various studies have been done, to remediation land by using acid-humic substances, and gives results quite encouraging, because it’s quite effective, efficient and inexpensive, compared with conventional methods is to provide an organic material such as kompost.

Pesticidal Pollution

2019 ◽  
pp. 155-176
Author(s):  
Rizwana Mobin ◽  
Hamida-Tun-Nisa Chisti ◽  
Tauseef Ahmad Rangreez ◽  
Rafia Bashir ◽  
Altaf Ahmad Najar
Keyword(s):  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Synergetic Effect ◽  
Contaminated Water ◽  
Ecology And Environment ◽  
Pesticide Runoff ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Impact Of Pesticides

The development and application of pesticides has contributed in a long way in making the “Green Revolution” possible. These newer pesticides have synergetic effect over the control of pests that otherwise have negative impact on the quality and quantity of food. The toxicity, persistence, and environmental pathway are some important criteria that determine the impacts on ecology and environment. The generalization of the impact of pesticides on different organisms is difficult as these are of broad spectrum chemical nature. However, the major problem that arises due to widespread use of pesticides is the contamination of water by pesticide runoff. The chemically contaminated water in turn leads to the much aggravated problems of bio-concentration and bio-magnification of these chemicals. While the bio-concentration describes the transfer of a chemical from surrounding into the tissue/body of organism, the bio-magnification is related to the increased concentration of such a chemical along a food chain.

scholarly journals The Green Revolution shaped the population structure of the rice pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 492-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Lorenzo Quibod ◽  
Genelou Atieza-Grande ◽  
Eula Gems Oreiro ◽  
Denice Palmos ◽  
Marian Hanna Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Plant Pathogens ◽  
Crop Improvement ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Xanthomonas Oryzae ◽  
Rice Varieties ◽  
Evolutionary Trajectory ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The impact of modern agriculture on the evolutionary trajectory of plant pathogens is a central question for crop sustainability. The Green Revolution replaced traditional rice landraces with high-yielding varieties, creating a uniform selection pressure that allows measuring the effect of such intervention. In this study, we analyzed a unique historical pathogen record to assess the impact of a major resistance gene, Xa4, in the population structure of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) collected in the Philippines in a span of 40 years. After the deployment of Xa4 in the early 1960s, the emergence of virulent pathogen groups was associated with the increasing adoption of rice varieties carrying Xa4, which reached 80% of the total planted area. Whole genomes analysis of a representative sample suggested six major pathogen groups with distinctive signatures of selection in genes related to secretion system, cell-wall degradation, lipopolysaccharide production, and detoxification of host defense components. Association genetics also suggested that each population might evolve different mechanisms to adapt to Xa4. Interestingly, we found evidence of strong selective sweep affecting several populations in the mid-1980s, suggesting a major bottleneck that coincides with the peak of Xa4 deployment in the archipelago. Our study highlights how modern agricultural practices facilitate the adaptation of pathogens to overcome the effects of standard crop improvement efforts.

Assessing the Impact of the Green Revolution, 1960 to 2000

Science ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 300 (5620) ◽  
pp. 758-762 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Evenson
Keyword(s):  
Green Revolution ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The Green Revolution: Social Change through Social Media

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-152
Author(s):  
Veena Tripathi ◽  
Dhriti Bhattacharjee
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Parent Organization ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

The advent of the internet changed the way we communicate forever. It became such a potent force that it was recommended as a nominee for Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year.” The world became euphoric about how this technology was changing the way we think. The changes were being brought about by people and that they were the change agents. It is required to understand the key concepts behind the emergence of social change through social media and their support in creating sustainability. This paper will report a study of five Indian social campaigns, right from their birth to the phase where they were no longer within the control of their parent organization but became a movement in their own rights. It is an exploratory study aimed at understanding the way social media works and how private organizations can also bring about a public change. The study will cover social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and organizational blogs. The variables will be drawn from the corporate sustainability reports, social media venues, working papers and other research studies. These factors and variables can be correlated to sustainability through which the objective to analyse the impact of social change through social media can be achieved. With sustainability becoming a mandate for big companies in India, this study will help in understanding how social media can play a decisive role in their sustainability policies. Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 3, Issue-3: 146-152

Customary Rights of Farmers in Neoliberal India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophy K. Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Customary Rights ◽  
The Impact

The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmer’s Rights Act, 2001, promises to balance the intellectual property rights of plant breeders and farmers under one umbrella legislation. However, there remain several grey areas and the rights of farmers, in reality, are still tenuous. Though the rights framework was foregrounded on an understanding between non-governmental organizations and industry, there is lack of clarity at both conceptual and procedural levels. In this context, Sophy K. Joseph analyses the impact of legal policy reforms during the ongoing Second Green Revolution on farmers’ customary rights and livelihood. The author discusses how the extension of private property rights to plant varieties, seeds, and other agrarian resources changed the demographic composition of the rural space, with increased migration of cultivators to the cities. The book argues that the transition from state interventionism (during the First Green Revolution), to state abstention (in the Second Green Revolution) has dramatically influenced India’s conventional agrarian practices and traditions. This work maps the evolutionary process of neoliberal economic and legal policies and its interference with primary concerns such as food security, food sovereignty, and agrarian self-reliance of the country.

scholarly journals The impact of the Green Revolution on indigenous crops of India

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Raeboline Lincy Eliazer Nelson ◽  
Kavitha Ravichandran ◽  
Usha Antony
Keyword(s):  
Green Revolution ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Rice Varieties ◽  
Increase Food Production ◽  
Nutrition Intake ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Yielding Varieties ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Indigenous Crops

Abstract The Green Revolution in India was initiated in the 1960s by introducing high-yielding varieties of rice and wheat to increase food production in order to alleviate hunger and poverty. Post-Green Revolution, the production of wheat and rice doubled due to initiatives of the government, but the production of other food crops such as indigenous rice varieties and millets declined. This led to the loss of distinct indigenous crops from cultivation and also caused extinction. This review deals with the impacts the Green Revolution had on the production of indigenous crops, its effects on society, environment, nutrition intake, and per capita availability of foods, and also the methods that can be implemented to revive the indigenous crops back into cultivation and carry the knowledge to the future generation forward.

The rapid growth of Egypt’s agricultural output, 1890–1914, as an early example of the green revolutions of modern South Asia: some implications for the writing of global history

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Owen
Keyword(s):  
Green Revolution ◽  
Global History ◽  
British India ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The article uses comparative Indian material from British India and later, the Pakistani Punjab to ask new questions of the standard accounts of Egypt’s post-1890 cotton boom. It also argues for the particular relevance of the rich Punjabi green revolution data to the Egyptian case, and more generally, for the rewards to be obtained from an academic dialog between selected aspects of late nineteenth and of late twentieth century globalization. Topics analyzed include the impact of the various agricultural revolutions on social and regional inequalities, the issue of sustainability, the role of experts and the impact on health of long-term environmental degradation.

scholarly journals Green Revolution in Parsa: Opportunities and Threats

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Shiva Kant Dube
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Agricultural Crops ◽  
Chemical Fertilizers ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Widespread Acceptance ◽  
Land Holdings ◽  
The Impact

This article has attempted to focus upon the concept, historical development, process and impact of green revolution at global context. It has also incorporated to emphasize the adverse impact resulted by green revolution. The widespread acceptance of High Yielding Variety Seeds (HYVs) and extensive adaptation of dwarf and semi-dwarf plants of short cropping period has intensified the production and productivity of agricultural crops. But, excessive and uncontrolled use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, insufficient irrigation and small land holdings has diminished and impoverished the soil fertility leading to desertification. This study has also overviewed the scenario of agricultural production and productivity of crops in Parsa district of Nepal being a developing country after the diffusion and acceptance of green revolution. This study would attract the attentions of planners, policy makers, stakeholders and farmers towards entertaining the impact of green revolution and make them aware about the threat created by it now and in the coming future in Nepalese context.Academic Voices, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2013, Pages 54-61 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/av.v3i1.9989 

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