Green Revolution

One reason for the rapid growth in the use of pesticides worldwide has been the "Green Revolution" (5), Although there have been some benefits from pesticide use in agriculture, they also cause significant environmental and public health problems. The same is true in public health where Insecticides have been used to control malaria. However, today Increased resistance to insecticides in mosquitoes and Increased resistance to drugs by the malarial parasite are resulting in an explosive increase of malaria worldwide (5). 

Parrot N, Marsden T (2002) The Real Green Revolution, Greenpeace Environmental Trust, ISBN 1903907020... 

In this sense, pesticide and fertilizer use can undermine the goals of lawn care itself, impoverishing the soil and plant health required to maintain turf. This effect, known as the chemical treadmill, emerged vrith the dawn of the green revolution in agriculture in the 1960s. The term was coined to capture the frustrating cycle where increased use of inputs leads to increased demand of the... 

Agriculmre, which is not only the largest water user, requires more water and this land use is also emerging as one of the main contributors to water pollution. Many subsistence farmers have benefited from the green revolution, which resulted in the introduction of multiple annual cropping cycles (up to four-crop rotations... 

Tomsett, B., Tregova, A., Garoosi, A., and Caddick, M. (2004). Ethanol-inducible gene expression first step towards a new green revolution Trends Plant Sci. 9(4) 159-161. 

Koprowski, H. and Yusibov, V. (2001). The green revolution plants as heterologous expression vectors. Vaccine 19 2735-2741. 

K.A. Dahlberg, in Beyond the Green Revolution The Ecology and Politics of Global Agricultural Development (K.A. Dahlberg, Ed.), Plenum Press, New York, NY (1979). 

The recommendations of Lynn (1937) and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in 2005 (GV2020 2005) have never been promoted in a successful way. The main reason for this is that the focus of extension was too oriented on the use of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and hybrid varieties. Green revolution techniques in Ghana did not result in increasing soil fertility levels and thus, yields. Besides that, chemical fertilisers can never be the solution since the prices of fertilisers and pesticides over the last 15 years have been on such a level that farmers cannot afford them. Farmers also observe the negative impact of chemical fertilisers on soil structure and soil life (Box 2). 

The training and visit method of extension that accompanied the green revolution is, as such, not a bad system of extension, partly because there is room to include social and cultural issues. But whenever this system uses only a technical approach, promoting green revolution farming without considering the ecological, social and cultural context of rural families, the developmental effect is very limited. Or even worse, it makes farmers dependent on the fertiliser... 

Thus there is no need to stipulate peasant conservatism to explain the rests unce to some of the high-yield crops introduced by the Green Revolution. If these crops also had higher variance, the resistance might have been perfectly rational. 

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and father of the Green Revolution, in Growing More per Acre Leaves More Land for Nature, Center for Global Food Issues,... 

Pesticides have played a key role in the world s rising crop yields. As the authors in this book note, the Green Revolution s plant breeding miracles and fertilizers might have failed to prevent massive human starvation and wildlands destruction if the higher yield potential of our crop fields had simply nourished more bugs and weeds. 

Marcus Terentius Varro, a Roman landowner of the first century B.C., as quoted in Sir Gordon Conway, The Doubly Green Revolution, 1997... 

Conway, Gordon. 1997. The Doubly Green Revolution. Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press. 

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