Green Revolution: Impacts, limits, and the path ahead
Prabhu Pingali
Abstract
A detailed retrospective of the Green Revolution, its achievement and limits in terms of agricultural productivity improvement, and its broader impact at social, environmental, and economic levels is provided. Lessons learned and the strategic insights are reviewed as the world is preparing a "redux" version of the Green Revolution with more integrative environmental and social impact combined with agricultural and economic development. Core policy directions for Green Revolution 2.0 that enhance the spread and sustainable adoption of productivity enhancing technologies are specified.
Topics & Concepts
Green RevolutionProductivityAgricultural revolutionAgricultureSustainable developmentAgricultural productivityNatural resource economicsIndustrial RevolutionReduxEconomicsEconomic growthBusinessAgricultural economicsPolitical scienceEngineeringGeographyLawArchaeologyAerospace engineeringClimate change impacts on agricultureAgricultural Innovations and PracticesAgricultural risk and resilience