Global Causes Of The Green Revolution

The Green Revolution was the series of research and development on technological advances that increased agricultural production throughout the world, especially in developing countries. With the main purpose of improving agricultural methods through new technologies, the Green Revolution had global causes and consequences. In the period from 1945 to the present, the Green Revolution had some major causes, such as the aspiration to eliminate world hunger and to develop new agricultural technologies. Furthermore, it had drastic consequences on social order and women working conditions, while also negative effects on the environment.

The major causes for the Green Revolution were the aspiration to reduce famine and the eagerness farmers developed

He believes that the Green Revolution can provide food for decades, ending world hunger. Scientists like Dr. Norman Borlaug wanted to implement the new scientifically bred crops of the revolution to help developing countries reduce poverty and undernourishment. This goal was one of the main causes for the Green Revolution’s execution. Before 1950, the amount of food supply in the world was barely the same amount of human population. After the Green Revolution, however, food supply surpassed world population significantly (doc#2). This means that a clear cause for the Green Revolution was the need to increase food supply. The world population did not have enough surpluses, leading to hunger and poverty. The Green Revolution was created to sustain the world population. A useful additional document would be data from a graph about food supply and human population specifically from developing countries, in order to see if the Green Revolution truly helped these areas. This graph should also include information about nourishment and poverty rates. Another cause for the implementation of the Green Revolution was the enthusiasm and competition regarding technological advancements. Farmers in India, the first developers of the new advances,

The Green Revolution had numerous harmful, environmental effects, such as reducing genetic diversity, food crop availability and soil fertility while increasing pest vulnerability, soil erosion, water shortages, and soil contamination, all these things leading to crop failure and conflicts over water resources (doc#8). Dr. Vandana Shiva is an Indian physicist who indignantly condemns the Green Revolution in an environmental magazine. She declares, in a pejorative tone, that the Green Revolution has caused crop failure and conflicts over water resources, damaging the environment so much that agricultural success is almost impossible. The Green Revolution included the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and synthetic herbicides that damaged the environment, causing soil erosion and possible pollution in water and soil supplies. This caused shortages in water resources, since irrigation was highly needed for the environmental issues the new technologies caused. These negative, environmental effects led to the displacement for farmers and impoverishment in rural areas. However, this source would be more reliable if historians had an additional document from the perspective of a farmer who was in reality negatively affected by the Green Revolution in India; whose land suffered from the environmental issues stated above, or at least from an Indian