Since the beginning of the Human Race, gathering a sufficient amount of food has always proved to be a challenge. The Green Revolution attempted to solve this problem by creating and applying new techniques and technologies. The Green Revolution was created out of necessity and caused social changes, discontent with some of the effects, and the overall quality of living to be improved but the improvement of living quality had the greatest effect because this led to higher overall populations which in turn created the need to feed an even greater population. The most apparent cause of the Green Revolution was the pure necessity to innovate and be able to sustain a higher number people. Document Three is an excerpt from a speech …show more content…
He goes on to say the best solution is to assist these people enough for them to realize that they can innovate without creating an empire. This is important because he says that they cannot flourish on their own in these conditions and must be shown new methods to improve their overall situations. Document Four is an excerpt from a speech by one of the scientists who contributed research to the Green Revolution. He tells of how many of the "developing countries" are barely getting by on what they have. In his mind, they have always been starved and the Green Revolution has become a valuable aid against this problem. He essentially says that without the Green Revolution, these people would not be able to survive over time so if they wished to prosper, they needed new technology to guide them to a better future. Finally, Document Five is a statement from India's minister for food and agriculture saying that he is proud of the hard work of the Punjabi people, and without them, the Green Revolution would never have …show more content…
Document One is a simple graph that displays the wheat yields of Mexico and India from 1950-2004. Over only 50 years India and Mexico's yields increased fivefold and one can assume that it was because of these new techniques. Both countries' yeilds were relatively low at first probably because of the end of World War II. Document Two is a graph that relates world population to the amount of food available beginning in 1800 and projecting into 2050. This graph easily compares the growth rate before and after the Green Revolution and you can see that shortly after it was first put in place, the previously steady rate had now skyrocketed as did the worldwide food supply. The revolution overall abilitated the human race so that it could grow and produce more with equal or less work. Lastly, Document Six is a statement from the wife of a Mexican agricultural official. She relays how she has seen people in Hermosillo, Mexico, who have innovated and have gained copius amounts of money. They've gained enough, in fact, to be able to travel to Tucson, Arizona, every month and go shopping as well as pay for everyday expenses. She also explains that she has been to Mexico City and has seen nothing like the progress being made here. Because she has visited a variety of regions in the same country, she can experience firsthand the effects that
Documents 2, 3, 5, and 6 all show that the Green Revolution caused a form of prosperity. Document 2 proves that as the Green Revolution increased the population as well as food supply from 1950 to
In my text you will be reading about why going green is important, the meaning of the term ‘carbon dioxide emission’, going vegan and three types of pollution. My references for my text are basically a conversation by the dinner table and a quite vague skype conversation with my vegan of a best friend, and partially a bit of what we learned in science class.
The Agricultural Revolution was the single most important advancement in the way that humans lived making civilization possible, until the 19th Century. The Age of Revolution occurred when the modern world was birthed with the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution, a shift in the means of producing goods and food, from manual to mechanized labor, transformed the economy, society, politics, and culture first beginning in Britain and spreading through Western Europe. This spread to “the West” (also later to include the United States), brought them into modernity and empowered them to dominate nations in the periphery, less developed countries, “the Rest”.
The Green Revolution was a period of technological innovation in agriculture between the years 1943 and the 1970s. It was due to food becoming inadequate, and economic life became primitive and inactive. This was a time where disease ravaged, conditions were horrible, and hunger was common. Positively, the Green Revolution caused an increase in food supply, expansion into new technology, and provided social mobility. On the flip side, it also caused the necessity for more labor, and increased the need for cash incomes.
The Green Revolutionbegan in Mexico, when after world war two the country had major problems with food shortages. New hybrids of wheat and maize were developed, these new varieties were dwarf plants capable of withstanding strong wind, heavy rain and disease, which had been the major cause of the food shortages. When this project started they had no intention of trying to transform the agriculture of other third world countries but, when the yields of wheat and maize increased by three and two times respectively, the seeds were taken to the Indian subcontinent. In 1964, farmers in India were short of food, lacked a balanced diet and had an extremely low standard of living.
This lesson is designed to be implemented in a high school World History class grades 9-10. The unit of study will be the Industrial Revolution focusing particularly on England. The lesson that focuses on environmental impact of the industrial revolution fits in on day 5 of what would be a 10 day unit. Preceding this lesson will be a general unit overview, causes of the Industrial Revolution, a study of early industrialization, a study of factories and mass production. Prior to this lesson students would have studied multiple technological advances on rural society and the impact those advances had on creating a movement of urbanization. Following this lesson students will be lessons introducing students to major economic theories Capitalism and Communism, study the advances in technology, science and medicine and look at daily life of citizens during the 1800s. The lesson prior to this one focuses on the impact mass production had on the labor market and the economy. This lesson focuses on how the industrial revolution impacted sustainability and process. Implementation of the lesson requires one period of 60 minutes.
The agriculture revolution, a defining point in human history. The revolution started and took place in Europe, mainly England, during the 18th century. This transformation involved improvements and innovation on the production of food, from using new techniques such as new crop rotation systems, machinery, and experimentation of crops which led to not only better and healthier food, but led to a more efficient way to produce mass amounts of food.
In this regard, studies show that famine has been reduced 20% in this period (Brownell, 2008), food supply raised 12-13% between 1960 and 1990, whereas without the new technologies food production were decreased around 20% and price was increased 35-65%. The other research in Asia shows that with 1% increase in production, the numbers of poor people decrease by 0.48% (Pingali, 2012). Furthermore, green revolution has had a great influence on labor’s life and provided opportunities for them to improve their life. In fact, this revolution has affected labors in some terms such as employment and wage. As I noted above, green revolution has increased productivity, so bulk density of generated plants enhance the need for extra labors for fertilizing, transplantation and weeding (Das,
The human people population is constantly growing and the demand for natural resources thus grows with it. Food is a limited resource which is essential for survival, currently some parts of the world are under food shortage due to famines, draught war and poor agricultural skills. Throughout history we depended on agriculture for the production of food. Agriculture got a burst in the 1950s during the green revolution were lots of chemical for pest, weeds control were discovered. The green revolution did not largely benefited developing countries due to high priced chemicals, most countries resulted to deforestation to clear land for farming Agricultural skills alone are not enough to support the human people population, it is predicted that by 2050 the would not be enough land for farming to feed the population. The green revolution caused a lot of people due to the improper use of chemical and their
This chapter starts with a discussion on the Green movement in Iran and then attempts to problematize it empirically through a critical reasoning. In this research, a virtual public sphere in Iran is discussed. Theoretically, the public sphere is the space in which citizens deliberate their common issues and criticize the state without fear. Habermas’ definition of the public sphere reminds places such as salons, coffee shops and teahouses rather than Internet- based spheres. In this regard, post-Habermasian thinkers assert that all social media and technology-based apparatuses can be studied as a new realm of the public sphere. This approach goes beyond the basic description in which Habermas (1982) refers to the 17th and 18th centuries
The idea behind the Green Revolution is noble: to enable developing nations to grow their own food, and thereby avert mass starvation. During the period
This has to be one of the most important issues of the current times because life as we know it will never be the same if something isn 't done. The problem is that we as humans are naturally selfish, so we think that we aren’t the problem. But the truth is we are, mostly to due with our greediness. We over-consume as a whole, we waste too much, we feel entitled and better than others, the list goes on and on. The fact of the matter is that there is no need for us to be all of this. We should feel content with what we are given and be sure that all are given the same. The green movement, isn 't just a social issue, it is a moral issue. One that we all need to partake in.
In 1960s, famine and poverty in Asian countries especially India, and China were reduced in rapid rate owing to increase in staple crops production and famine was completely eradicated in late 20th century (Devereux, 2009). The wheat and rice yield tripled to more than 6tonnes/hectare since 1960s and thereby, eradicated famine by achieving food self-sufficiency (Basu and Scholten, 2012). Moreover, for every 1% increase in yield/hectare more than six million poor people living within <$1 per day were uplifted from poverty (Thirtle et al., 2003).The increase in staple crops productivity were the outcome of the adoption of technologies such as high yielding varieties (HYV), fertilizers, irrigation, and mechanization (Pingali, 1997). The increase in crop yield by the adoption of those technology packages was called as Green Revolution (Hazell, 2013).
The advancement in agriculture has been a big part in helping feed this growing world. We are expected to have close to 10 billion people on this Earth in the next century. The big question right now is how we are going to feed them with the amount of land being able to farm on is decreasing. This means that we must find a way to be more efficient and can make more food with less land. The Green Revolution was a big step back in the 1960’s in advancing in the agriculture field. Now we have a big problem with the amount of people who are already hungry and the population growing. We must find a way to be able to feed the world. Some of the ways we could do that is increasing yields through GMOS, being able to farm more acres, being able to get the food to reach the poverty-stricken areas, and as well teaching the poorer areas about food and how to produce more of it.
The green revolution came about India after a break in India’s economic growth in 1965. The break was due to many factors, the great drought, the Pakistani attack of September 1965, and weak political leadership after Nehru’s death. “Indira Gandhi later came to power and was immediately faced with the second year of the great drought, and on top of all this she succumbed to the pressure of the World Bank and drastically devalued the rupee.” “The drought pushed up prices and the devaluation accelerated this trend even more.”13 The recovery of Indian agriculture from this period was partly due to the green revolution, which required “improved seed, irrigation, and heavy use of chemical fertilizer.” The green revolution, however, was very