A Brief Note On The And The Green Revolution

The records of the last census taken todays population is approximately 7 billion. To put it into perspective of the amount of work farmers take into hand the average farmer feeds 155 people one their own. (“Comparing Agriculture of the Past to Today”) . Notice that a census is only taken on the people of the world, but farmers and their operations are not separately accounted for. “It is impossible to calculate the exact number of farms and farmers in the United States.” (Conkin 147). Of course farmers do not use the simplistic technology of the past to achieve these high expectations. Farms implement the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to improve crop production. The GPS is a system that uses satellite signals to find the location of a radio receiver. (“The Science and Technology of Agriculture”) Using biotechnology has also became an interesting subject of big time farmers. This is the changing of genetic material if living things to improve the production of the product. An example of a GMO would be crops that have been modified to be resistant to disease. Disease resistant crops are one of the most widely used in the field of GMO’s. (“The Science and Technology of Agriculture”).

The Green Revolution a period of time that genetically modified crops were engineered, pesticides and fertilizer were created starting in the 1940s ending in the 1960s. This period caused a lot of debate on the Green Revolution some stating it positively affected the world and some stating that it negatively affected the world. The positives of the Green Revolution include increasing yields, increasing profit for farmers, lowering prices for foods which then allows the poor afford the food, and crops can be genetically modified to contain specific vitamin. The Green revolution is negative because it caused an increase in global pollution, chemical pollution, and health risks due to the exposure to the chemical produced during the Green Revolution.

There used to be a lot more farmers, each one with a smaller farm, but growing quite a few different products like corn, wheat, hay, barley, oats, etc. Today there are a lot less farmers, but about the same amount of land is being farmed. Each farmer has a much bigger acreage to cultivate. Now each farmer specializes in one product. This way each farmer is more efficient in what they grow.. The most produced commodities are grains, oil seeds, dried beans and peas at 42%, other crops and hay account for another 31%. Now, most products are enhanced of fertilizers and pesticides, although there is an increasing demand for organic products which are overall more

The revolution is surrounded by many inventions including fertilizers and pesticides. It is through these innovations that developed countries were able to feed their people (Standage, 199). As Standage refers to it, feeding the world. Standage's descriptions of this revolution clearly indicate that developed countries achieved what they have by feeding their people first. As such, food can be used for the betterment of the nation. Through the book, the writer focuses on the impacts of agriculture on various aspects of a human's life. The main audience seems to be the people (leaders) who have the role in making and implementing food

The Green Revolution had a positive, negative, or possibly both consequences on the way human beings have evolutionized through out the years. Each of these documents specifically proves that whether good or bad the different societies have been able to incorporate a little from what the Green Revolution has left them into their daily lives. The Green Revolution on one-side has ignited the revolution for new ideas and traditions. On the other side the Green Revolution has become a form of destructing the true and only roots for most farmers.

The green revolution allowed for a rapid increase in high yield crops through the use of genetically modified seeds that allowed developing nations to survive in the face of famine.

The development of high yield crops have saved huge areas of forests and other environmentally fragile lands that would otherwise have been needed for farming. For example, in Asia cereal production doubled between 1970 and 1975, yet the total land area cultivated with cereals increased by only 4 percent. The passing of laws like the Clean Water Act of 1972 that took steps to insure the increased use of fertilizers and pesticides would not end up in the waterways that so many people rely on for consumption and in the agriculture world of farming. The development of pest-resistant varieties has also helped in keeping pesticides and herbicides out of our waters. All of these advancements and legislation have championed a sustainable way to continue growth in economics and

In the book The Man Who Feed The World by Leon Hesser it talked about Norman Borlaug’s life. Borlaug helped millions of people in his efforts to the Green Revolution. The Green Revolution is a big boom in the increase of crop production in developing countries. Dr. Borlaug did this by using fertilizers and high yield crop varieties. To this day there still are countries in poverty that can’t support their source of food. As years go by there will be more mouths to feed like in 2050 there is supposed to be 9 billion people on earth. I think that we should keep using modern agricultural technologies to help feed the world.

However currently we are not concern on running out of supply of food even though our population is increasing at an exponential rate but concerned with the advancement that are being made today to sustain living for example 92% of U.S corn is genetically engineer resulting in 75% of the food in the market is processed. Advancement on farming would be a progress trap because according to a study “A number of studies over the past decade have revealed that genetically engineered foods can pose serious risks to farmers, human health, domesticated animals, wildlife and the environment”(Center For Food Safety) In civilizations, population constantly increases until it hits a point in the food supply, where the food supply scale breaks and there is no more food left -- the upward focus on wealth and how the rich will always stay rich and the poor will always stay poor is a perfect example of why GMO foods were created; they are able to be produced cheap and sold cheap even if it harms human beings. The majority of these big corporations and business that fall along the lines of farming are sought out to make money and that is why being greedy is a progress trap.. you have enough but always have the self-desire for

GMOs can help feed the future. The reasoning for this is because GMOs are capable of surviving the harsh conditions of the environment, so farmers have the capability to preserve water and energy in order to feed the future. Furthermore the article “GMOs and the Environment” mentions that “the total land devoted to agriculture around the globe is 20,000,000 square miles. That’s more than five times the area of the united states. The availability of farmland is essential to agricultural production. And yet, the availability of new land suitable for crop production is limited”(3). This key information shows the true importance of agriculture land and how this land will play a vital role ,but it is limited for the sheer fact that farmland is

And it does not end here, I am not just looking at realistic goals to strengthen our country, but also a nation which took real steps to achieve the dream of renewable energy, the dream of clean energy. A Green America. Not just in slogans and quotations but as a central goal in the agenda. We will work towards reducing our carbon footprint and begin our $60Bilion Clean Energy Challenge where we will partner with states, cities and rural communities into building a greener America, a better America to ensure that the very air we breathe, the water we drink, all remain for our generations to come and we set an example for them, that we care.

Many days before the sun even rises a farmer will get up, crank up his tractor and go to work in the fields. With the big tractors we have today a single person can plow a hundred acres in a day. It only takes a few farmers to grow enough food for a whole city. With that in mind think about how the few farmers that are in the United States today can supply everyone in it with the food they need. They can do this with the help of new advances in farming like a tractor that can steer itself, and crops that can withstand diseases and extreme weather.

To date, historical evidence, from the industrial revolution to the green revolution, show that agriculture growth has long been the engine of development. This idea has long helped promoting the capitalist agriculture transition as the only path to rise resident’s income (Zhang, et al., 2015) in order to get people out of poverty. Accordingly, many started celebrating the global rise in incomes as a success of those policies while the lagging in Africa showed the undermined inequalities and marginalisation of the most vulnerable categories. Yet, the specificity in Africa is, today, getting more and more attention as it shows not only the persistence of poverty but a high concentration in rural areas.

Between 1960 and 1980, in what was called The Green Revolution, up-to-date techniques and advanced fertilizers helped many farmers raise production levels. However, according to the article, Global agricultural production has only risen by 2.3 percent since 1961. Of course populations steadily rise, so it is as though we keep taking a step backwards, yet we are not living as meagerly as we did in the past.

While this has been the generation where the ‘green movement’ has flourished [Birkland], the growth of industry as well as a lack of proper environmental education, has sparked an increase in wildlife-threatening pollution and litter. [Siegel]. The general population underestimates the effect that “just one bottle” thrown onto the side of the road will have on the planet and its inhabitants in the long run, favoring the convenience of littering over the well-being of the Earth as a whole. This problem is especially prominent in Kentucky where woods and other habitats for the plethora of wildlife essential to environmental success are rapidly disappearing or are being contaminated with human waste. Existing literature explains the problems and gives all of the details of events which contribute to this deterioration, but offer no solution and make no effort to inspire reform. It is often argued that all that is needed to fix this problem is the organization of a little clean-up effort, but the problem is so large and widespread that such an effort would require more manpower and funding than the state would be willing to contribute. In order for this problem to even begin to be alleviated, it and its detriments will need to be called to the attention of the general public so they might take the solution and prevention into their own hands.