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Green Revolution

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Etymology

Coined by former chief of the US foreign aid program (USAID) William Steen Gaud in 1968, modeled on Red Revolution and White Revolution.

Definitions

  1. The set of wide-ranging technological changes to agriculture in the 20th century,…

    The set of wide-ranging technological changes to agriculture in the 20th century, particularly in developing countries, which allowed for greater food production capacity.

    • The Green Revolution, we keep hearing, is losing momentum. And sometimes it looks that way, with drought in Africa and Europe, famine in Somalia, one crisis after another in India, 17 or 18 civil wars in Africa.
    • 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.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of Green Revolution.

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