Green Revolution: Impacts, limits, and the path ahead

A detailed retrospective of the Green Revolution, its achievement and limits in terms of agricultural productivity improvement, and its broader impact at social, environmental, and economic levels is provided. Lessons learned and the strategic insights are reviewed as the world is preparing a “redux...

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Published inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 109; no. 31; pp. 12302 - 12308
Main Author Pingali, Prabhu L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States National Academy of Sciences 31.07.2012
National Acad Sciences
Subjects
Agricultural production
Agriculture - economics
Agriculture - history
Agriculture - trends
AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT AND NUTRITION SECURITY: SPECIAL FEATURE
Corn
Crop economics
Crop production
Crop science
Economic development
Ecosystem
Energy crops
Environmental impact
Food crops
Food Supply - economics
Food Supply - history
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
issues and policy
Poverty
Rice
Social impact
Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable development
Wheat
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Summary:A detailed retrospective of the Green Revolution, its achievement and limits in terms of agricultural productivity improvement, and its broader impact at social, environmental, and economic levels is provided. Lessons learned and the strategic insights are reviewed as the world is preparing a “redux” version of the Green Revolution with more integrative environmental and social impact combined with agricultural and economic development. Core policy directions for Green Revolution 2.0 that enhance the spread and sustainable adoption of productivity enhancing technologies are specified.
Bibliography:http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0912953109
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Edited by William C. Clark, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and approved June 25, 2012 (received for review April 2, 2012)
Author contributions: P.L.P. wrote the paper.
ISSN:0027-8424
1091-6490
DOI:10.1073/pnas.0912953109