India`s Green Revolution: Economic Gains and Political Costs, Frankel Francine R.

Автор: Swaminathan M S
Название: 50 Years Of Green Revolution: An Anthology Of Research Papers
ISBN: 9813200065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789813200067
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The green revolution in India about 50 years ago transformed India's image then as begging bowl to bread basket. This transformation during the 1960s took just about 4 years. The yield increases achieved in wheat and then in rice which occurred in just about half decade is far in excess of the yield increases during the preceding 4000 years. This remarkable feat was achieved with the leadership of the author using the dwarf wheat types which had been produced by Norman Borlaug in Mexico.

The research and development of green revolution of wheat and rice at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi was led by the author along with his team of students and co-workers. He has published over 100 papers on green revolution and the ever-green revolution which is a refinement of the former. This book is a compilation of just about 40 of his numerous research papers, monographs and books published by him on this subject.

The papers in this book bring out the scientific basis of the modification of the plant type so as to be responsive to exogenous addition of chemical fertilizers and irrigation. The ideal plant type enables capture of adequate sunlight and using the chemical fertilizers added to the soil, produce substantial photosynthetic starch. And because the plants have short and thick culm, they are able to withstand enormous amounts of grains in their ears. This indeed was the basis of breaking the yield barriers associated with native varieties. The book also brings out that green revolution had established the food security at the national level but not at the individual household levels of millions of resource-poor rural small and marginal farming, fishing and landless families. Further green revolution was commodity-centric and the manner of its practice led to environmental degradation and social inequities. This author realized as early as 1972 that system of agriculture in India should be designed to fight both the famines of food and rural livelihoods. In pursuit of it, this author further designed an evergreen revolution with systems approach. What this means is providing concurrent attention to ecological foundations of agriculture and the livelihoods of the rural people.

The book also brings out that green revolution was a team effort involving scientists, policy makers, administrators, farmers and students.

This book is an outstanding example of green revolution providing a breathing space by putting the cereal grain production rate ahead of the population growth rate and then when food security has been adequately established, the system is changed to achieve productivity in perpetuity without causing environmental and social harm.

Автор: Frankel Francine R.
Название: India`s Green Revolution: Economic Gains and Political Costs
ISBN: 0691620350 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691620350
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Описание: The success of the agricultural policy adopted in 1965 has given India the hope of escaping from its circle of poverty. At the same time the increased rate of economic development seems to have exacerbated social tensions and accentuated disparities that may eventually undermine the foundations of rural political stability. Originally published in

Автор: M. Alauddin; C. Tisdell
Название: The ‘Green Revolution` and Economic Development
ISBN: 0333527364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333527368
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: `Green-Revolution` technologies have transformed the countryside of many less developed countries. It provides an integrated view of the effects of `Green Revolution` technologies on economic growth and returns, distribution of income and resources, stability of agricultural production and returns and their sustainability in Bangladesh.

Автор: Thottathil Sapna E.
Название: India`s Organic Farming Revolution: What It Means for Our Global Food System
ISBN: 1609382773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609382773
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Описание: Should you buy organic food? Is it just a status symbol, or is it really better for us? Is it really better for the environment? What about organic produce grown thousands of miles from our kitchens, or on massive corporately owned farms? Is “local” or “small-scale” better, even if it’s not organic? A lot of consumers who would like to do the right thing for their health and the environment are asking such questions.Sapna Thottathil calls on us to rethink the politics of organic food by focusing on what it means for the people who grow and sell it—what it means for their health, the health of their environment, and also their economic and political well-being. Taking readers to the state of Kerala in southern India, she shows us a place where the so-called “Green Revolution” program of hybrid seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and rising pesticide use had failed to reduce hunger while it caused a cascade of economic, medical, and environmental problems. Farmers burdened with huge debts from buying the new seeds and chemicals were committing suicide in troubling numbers. Farm labourers suffered from pesticide poisoning and rising rates of birth defects. A sharp fall in biodiversity worried environmental activists, and everyone was anxious about declining yields of key export crops like black pepper and coffee.In their debates about how to solve these problems, farmers, environmentalists, and policymakers drew on Kerala’s history of and continuing commitment to grassroots democracy. In 2010, they took the unprecedented step of enacting a policy that requires all Kerala growers to farm organically by 2020. How this policy came to be and its immediate economic, political, and physical effects on the state’s residents offer lessons for everyone interested in agriculture, the environment, and what to eat for dinner. Kerala’s example shows that when done right, this kind of agriculture can be good for everyone in our global food system.

Автор: N. Chandrasekhara Rao, Carl E. Pray, Ronald J. Herring
Название: Biotechnology for a Second Green Revolution in India: Socioeconomic, Political, and Public Policy Issues
ISBN: 9332704457 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789332704459
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Описание: This book is the first of its kind in examining the role of biotechnology for reviving Indian agriculture and accelerating farmers’ incomes. It examines the empirical evidence in various agro-ecologies on already commercialised technologies, and also technologies on shelf like Bt brinjal, and herbicide tolerant maize and cotton. The political economy behind the public policies for biotechnologies, reasons for continuing controversies, and impacts of labelling policies and seed-pricing controls are examined in greater detail. In the past few years, discussion on genetically engineered crops has been particularly contentious, in the backdrop of concerns on food security and dominance of multinationals. However, dispassionate analysis of these technologies for their usefulness in Indian context has been missing. This book addresses this gap in extant literature and contains chapters by several renowned scholars from India and abroad, and can be a useful guide to students, civil society, policy makers, and researchers working on Indian agriculture.

Автор: Keijiro Otsuka; Donald F. Larson
Название: An African Green Revolution
ISBN: 9401783683 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401783682
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Описание: This volume explores the usefulness of the Asian model of agricultural development for Africa, where, even before the recent world food crisis, one third of all children were undernourished. Explains Africa`s productivity gap and proposes ways to close it.

Автор: Indian Society of Agricultural Economics
Название: Indian Agricultural Economy under Green Revolution 1966 to 1990: Volume 2
ISBN: 9332703345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789332703346
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Описание: This volume is a part of the three-volume compilation of 74 presidential addresses of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (ISAE) starting from 1940 to 2015. Each volume carries Introduction by three eminent economists. These introductions have not only added tremendous value to the volumes, but also provide a brief understanding of the amterial covered.

Автор: Glaeser
Название: The Green Revolution Revisited
ISBN: 0415592496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415592499
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Описание: The Green Revolution - the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s - came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for optimal irrigation, intensive use of fertilisers and pesticides. This book examines the Green Revolution concept in South America, Asia and Africa.

Автор: R. Douglas Hurt
Название: The Green Revolution in the Global South: Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences
ISBN: 0817320512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780817320515
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Описание: A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution.The Green Revolution was devised to increase agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world. Agriculturalists employed anhydrous ammonia and other fertilizing agents, mechanical tilling, hybridized seeds, pesticides, herbicides, and a multitude of other techniques to increase yields and feed a mushrooming human population that would otherwise suffer starvation as the world's food supply dwindled. In The Green Revolution in the Global South: Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences, R. Douglas Hurt demonstrates that the Green Revolution did not turn out as neatly as scientists predicted. When its methods and products were imported to places like Indonesia and Nigeria, or even replicated indigenously, the result was a tumultuous impact on a society's functioning. A range of factors-including cultural practices, ethnic and religious barriers, cost and availability of new technologies, climate, rainfall and aridity, soil quality, the scale of landholdings, political policies and opportunism, the rise of industrial farms, civil unrest, indigenous diseases, and corruption-entered into the Green Revolution calculus, producing a series of unintended consequences that varied from place to place. As the Green Revolution played out over time, these consequences rippled throughout societies, affecting environments, economies, political structures, and countless human lives.Analyzing change over time, almost decade by decade, Hurt shows that the Green Revolution was driven by the state as well as science. Rather than acknowledge the vast problems with the Green Revolution or explore other models, Hurt argues, scientists and political leaders doubled down and repeated the same missteps in the name of humanity and food security. In tracing the permutations of modern science's impact on international agricultural systems, Hurt documents how, beyond increasing yields, the Green Revolution affected social orders, politics, and lifestyles in every place its methods were applied-usually far more than once.

Автор: Kilby
Название: The Green Revolution
ISBN: 0367191601 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367191603
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Описание: This book reviews the Green Revolution, starting with its inception and development from the 1940s to the 1970s, and leading to what is commonly referred to as a second Green Revolution in the 2000s.

Автор: Indian Society of Agricultural Economics
Название: Indian Agricultural Economy during Pre-Green Revolution Era 1940 to 1965: Volume 1
ISBN: 9332703337 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789332703339
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Описание: This volume is a part of the three-volume compilation of 74 presidential addresses of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (ISAE) starting from 1940 to 2015. Each volume carries Introduction by three eminent economists. These introductions have not only added tremendous value to the volumes, but also provide a brief understanding of the amterial covered.