Green Revolution

English Alternative forms en green revolution Etymology en Q104038171 1968 1, modeled on en Red Revolution and en White Revolution.1968-03-08 The Green Revolution: Accomplishments and Apprehensions AgBioWorld William S. Gaud http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/topics/borlaug/borlaug-green.html These and other developments in the field of agriculture contain the makings of a new revolution. It is not a violetviolent 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260727064533/http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/topics/borlaug/borlaug-green.html 27 July 2026 Proper noun Green Revolution The set of wide-ranging technological changes to agriculture in the 20th century, particularly in developing countries, which allowed for greater food production capacity. en Third Agricultural Revolution en For Green Revolutionaries, A Latin American Triumph Richard Critchfield International Herald Tribune https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/15/opinion/IHT-for-green-revolutionaries-a-latin-american-triumph.html July 15, 1993 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20241228041128/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/15/opinion/IHT-for-green-revolutionaries-a-latin-american-triumph.html 28 December 2024 en-GB John Vidal w:Alexander Cockburn Norman Borlaug: humanitarian hero or menace to society? The Guardian 2014-04-01 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/apr/01/norman-borlaug-humanitarian-hero-menace-society 0261-3077 The political journalist Alexander Cockburn was even less complimentary: "Aside from Kissinger, probably the biggest killer of all to have got the peace prize was Norman Borlaug, whose ‘green revolution’ wheat strains led to the death of peasants by the million." https://web.archive.org/web/20261013130119/https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/apr/01/norman-borlaug-humanitarian-hero-menace-society 13 October 2026 en https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/the-conversation/556901/ The Conversation 2018-04-24 The Atlantic Gary A. Gomby 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20221209152204/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/the-conversation/556901/ 9 December 2022 weekend John Reed 2023-10-07 Obituary: Plant geneticist whose work transformed a hungry nation 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. Translations Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 綠色革命 Finnish: fi vihreä vallankumous French: fr révolution verte f Hindi: hi हरित क्रांति f Italian: it rivoluzione verde f Malayalam: ml ഹരിത വിപ്ലവം Tagalog: tl Rebolusyong Luntian References Further reading