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Göran Djurfeldt

Professor emeritus

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Green revolution

Author

  • Göran Djurfeldt

Editor

  • Pasquale Ferranti
  • Elliot M. Berry
  • Jock R. Anderson

Summary, in English

The Green Revolution in Asia from the early 1960s is defined as a process driven by governments in pursuit of self-sufficiency in food grains. The process was market-mediated and smallholder based and can be dated to the early 1960s with the Nobel Prize Laureate, Norman Borlaug’s research on high-yielding dwarf wheat in Mexico and later spread to rice and number of countries in South East and South Asia.

Department/s

  • Department of Human Geography

Publishing year

2019

Language

English

Pages

147-151

Publication/Series

Encyclopedia of Food Security and Sustainability

Volume

3

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Social Anthropology
  • Human Geography

Keywords

  • Geo-political dimensions
  • High-yielding dwarf wheat
  • High-yielding rice, IR-8
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
  • Mexico
  • National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS)
  • National self-sufficiency in grains
  • Norman borlaug
  • Philippines
  • Role of markets
  • Smallholders based process
  • State-driven process

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9780128126882
  • ISBN: 9780128126875