Green Revolution

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Etymology

Coined by former chief of the US foreign aid program (USAID) William Steen Gaud in 1968.[1]

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Green Revolution

  1. The set of wide-ranging technological changes to agriculture in the 20th century, particularly in developing countries, which allowed for greater food production capacity.
    Synonym: Third Agricultural Revolution
    • 2018 April 24, Gary A. Gomby, “The Conversation”, in The Atlantic‎:
      The Green Revolution was, as [Norman] Borlaug recognized, merely a transition to an onrushing future where billions more will want the same things we in the United States and the rest of the developed world already have.
    • 2023 October 7, John Reed, “Obituary: Plant geneticist whose work transformed a hungry nation”, in FT Weekend, page 6:
      Swaminathan went on to become the chief architect of India's “green revolution”, which would tranform a chronically hungry nation and perpetual ward of foreign donors into one of the world's largest food producers.

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  1. William S. Gaud (1968 March 8) “The Green Revolution: Accomplishments and Apprehensions”, in AgBioWorld‎: “These and other developments in the field of agriculture contain the makings of a new revolution. It is not a violet Red Revolution like that of the Soviets, nor is it a White Revolution like that of the Shah of Iran. I call it the Green Revolution.”

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