The Success Of A Green Revolution

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.

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He points out facts about how the Green Revolution originally was laughed, then proves that these original thoughts untrue: “the Green Revolution has brought nothing to India except “indebted and discontented farmers,”… India, for instance, doubled its wheat production between 1964 and 1970 and was able to terminate all dependence on international food aid by 1975.”(143-144) This fact introduce and support the idea that Paarlberg has done his research around the world probing that the Green Revolution is the seeding of the future. Grose continues with many facts: “In Asia these new seeds lifted tens of millions of small farmers out of desperate poverty…India’s poverty rate fell from 60 percent to just 27 percent… the Green Revolution was good for both agriculture and social justice.” These facts are a few of many that logically support his claim that it is a substantial and real problem that world hunger is bigger than anyone ever thought. This helps his audience understand that the Green Revolution could be the answer to help end world hunger. The details and numbers build an appeal to logos and impress upon the reader that this is a solution worth looking

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.

Many support agricultural modernization, as a solution Africa’s, and many other impoverished nations hunger problems. This would include the industrialization of their agricultural industry, using modern, genetically enhanced seeds, and fertilizer. Yet, some of the same groups that are promoting the organic movement in the United States are advocating against the globalization of modern industrial agricultural practices (Paarlberg 179). Those who support modernization of such nations argue that the current process in inefficient, and inadequate. They believe that globalization of the highly capitalized, science-intensive, agricultural system that has been developed in the West, is the answer to the worlds hunger problems. They also warn that if the West abandons its current practices, it may fall victim to famine due to inadequate production (Paarlberg 179). However, supporters of organic production point to the fact that each year, approximately ten million tons of chemical fertilizer are poured onto our corn

Throughout time, humans have pushed forward in every aspect in life in order to improve their living standards, wealth and most importantly the agricultural sector which is the base of every human race. Food is the basic requirement for any individual to stay alive and healthy. In an article by Tamsin McMahon, she states that over the past 60 years, the world population has grown from 2.5 billion to 7 billion while world hunger dropped from 40% down to 15% (McMahon T., July 2012). This shows that our agricultural advances through technology have helped control world hunger and decrease it by more than half, but this is a short-term solution if we want to consider the future generations that depend on our current actions toward the three main pillars of agriculture which are: Health and nutrition, Economy and sustainability all while considering the local small farms and corporate farms.

South Asia is one of the most densely populated regions of the world, where despite a slow growth, agriculture remains the backbone of rural economy as it employs one half to over 90 percent of the labor force. Both extensive and intensive policy measures for agriculture

On June 12, 2009, a series of protests broke out after the results of the presidential election in Iran. The riots started in the capital city of Tehran, and quickly spread throughout the Islamic Republic. Protestors gathered in other major cities around the world, including New York City (Mackey). Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Iranians were protesting against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection, which was allegedly the result of electoral fraud.

Without some system of worldwide food sharing, the proportion of people in the rich and poor nations might eventually stabilize. The overpopulated poor countries would decrease in numbers, while the rich countries that had room for more people would increase. Hardin continues on to show that the modern approach to foreign aid stresses the export of technology and advice, rather than money and food! An ancient Chinese proverb once said: “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach him how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his days” (Hardin, Pg. 84). A number of programs for improving agriculture in the hungry nations known as the “Green Revolution” have taken a big stand in offering harvest and greater resistance to crop damage due to action taken on this advice. It is said that foundations such as “miracle rice” and “miracle wheat” are one of the most prominent advocates of a world food bank.

Human societies since the beginning of time have probably committed more land to Agricultural production than for any other purpose. Demand for land especially for Agricultural production in many parts of the globe is on the increase. Studies have revealed that the rise in demand for food to feed the world’s teaming population, the increased demand for agricultural output to produce alternative energy, high agricultural product prices are amount other factors that have caused a surge in the demand for agricultural land globally.

Although most of the world’s food supply comes from rural areas, those areas are the ones with the most food deficient people. Food production grows more rapidly than does the world’s population, but yet there are still many people who lack access to food. Cuba struggled for a long time to recover their agricultural systems and produce enough food for even themselves. Today Cuba’s agricultural production is better and more self-sufficient than ever before. Conserving the environment has growing support and is the future of all agricultural development. The agricultural revolution of Cuba has inspired other countries to be self-sufficient, to practice a more sustainable form of agriculture, and to direct farming toward meeting the needs of people within a country, rather than producing cash crops for export.

     Agriculture has changed dramatically, especially since the end of World War II. Food and fibre productivity rose due to new technologies, mechanization, increased chemical use, specialization and government policies that favoured maximizing production. These changes allowed fewer farmers with reduced labour demands to produce the majority of the food and fibre.

The controversies that arose with the Green Revolution pesticide and fertilizer techniques of the 2008 article are rising again in this 2016 article, only the perpetrator has changed from the chemical usages of the Green Revolution to the side effects of GM seeds in India. The GM seeds that are covered in the 2016 article are cotton seeds that have been modified to reduce the need of pesticides and increase yield such that India is expected to become the largest producer of cotton surpassing China. These GM seeds seemingly fixed the overuse of chemical that was required in 2008 as the article from then said they might, but that was only a temporary fix. These seeds still contain the same financial and debt problems that came with the Green Revolution. Even more worrisome is the fact that the pesticide usage reduction that the cotton GM seeds began to be less effective. Pest became resistant to the pesticide strand of cotton to such an extend that pesticide use have increased to almost twice of what it was in 2008 when the 2008 article stated the worries of the Punjab farmers. These worries still exist as with increase use of these pesticide chemicals, so will there be an increase in the health worries of 2008, such that they may be even

Agriculture has been an essential part of to the survival of humanity from the beginning, and we rely on it now just as much as we did then. Fortunately, the technology used in agriculture has been increased over time, and currently the ‘Green Revolution’ is providing us with greater inputs of fertilizer, water and pesticides, new crop strains, and increased technology as stated by Tillman and others (2002). These advances modern agriculture is currently feed 6 million people, and it only continues to increase (in both advances and in those fed). However, the global population is also continuing to increase, allowing for there to be more agricultural output which are essential for social stability and global politics as a whole. While this sounds good, doubling this food production comes with major challenges. Tillman and others (2002) evaluate and explain these scientific and policy challenges that are required to be met in order to sustain the entire agricultural production. This will require fundamental shifts in institutions and policies because the concept of sustainable agriculture must be adopted.

The term Green Revolution was first used in 1968 when people realized that a revolution in agriculture was taking place. In this revolution many technology transfer initiatives were created which led to a drastic increase of production worldwide as well as innovative ideas that created large supplies of food very quickly. Incorporating technological ideas such as mechanization, which led to the massive increase of production of food at the expense of creating larger but fewer farms, is what really gave headway to the mass production of food. With the creation of so much food there needed to be advancements in the way we grew our food such as synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and GMOs. With these technological changes in the way food was farmed and produced many people were able to benefit from the outcomes of the Green Revolution. The food was able to be made and sold so cheaply that the revolution, to some degree, helped alleviate world hunger by providing people with food that diversified their diet. However, with these changes in agriculture came changes in the socio economy. Many small farms went into debt and lost their land while the wealthier farms were able to grow the amount of land they had, thereby giving rise to new ways of farming, like monoculture farming. Overall, the Green Revolution changed the world in both positive and negative ways. By using new and old technologies to create a system where food could be made cheaply and at large quantities, we see many