Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Top stories

   • 

     Starmer is the worst of old and New Labour

     Repair the damage done to public services under the Tories and kickstart economic growth. Labour governments have always believed in growing the ...

     Daily Telegraph

     1 day ago

   • 

     Scotland Today

     Is Scotland's energy gold rush boomtown being taxed into oblivion?

     3 days ago

   • 

     The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo

     Tokyo: VFX Pioneer George Murphy Talks AI, Virtual Production and the Future of Filmmaking

     2 days ago

   • 

     AFP via Yahoo

     Myanmar's war approaches Mandalay a year after rebel offensive

     7 days ago

   • New York Times

     Protecting Nature, With the U.S. on the Sidelines

     1 day ago

   • The Guardian

     The ransacking of Britain: why the people finally rose up against ‘sod you architecture’

     Inspired by Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier, who believed streets fostered disease, a vision of Britain was cooked up that would see historic city centres flattened for ...

     5 days ago

   View all

2. • • Studies show that the Green Revolution contributed to widespread eradication of poverty, averted hunger for millions, raised incomes, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, reduced land use for agriculture, and contributed to declines in infant mortality.
     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

     Green Revolution - Wikipedia

3. People also ask

   What was the Green Revolution?

   • The Green Revolution, or the Third Agricultural Revolution, was a period of technology transfer initiatives that saw greatly increased crop yields. [ 1 ][ 2 ] These changes in agriculture began in developed countries in the early 20th century and spread globally until the late 1980s. [ 3 ]

   Green Revolution - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

   See all results for this question

   How did the Green Revolution affect the world?

   • green revolution, great increase in production of food grains (especially wheat and rice) that resulted in large part from the introduction into developing countries of new, high-yielding varieties, beginning in the mid-20th century. Its early dramatic successes were in Mexico and the Indian subcontinent.

   Green revolution | Definition, Advantages, Importance, & Facts - Britann…

   www.britannica.com/event/green-revolution

   See all results for this question

   How did the Green Revolution change agriculture?

   • This transformative agriculture movement both solved and created problems. The Green Revolution refers to a transformative 20th-century agricultural project that utilized plant genetics, modern irrigation systems, and chemical fertilizers and pesticides to increase food production and reduce poverty and hunger in developing countries.

   Green Revolution: History, Technologies, and Impact - Treehugger

   www.treehugger.com/green-revolution-history-technologies-and-impact-5189596

   See all results for this question

   Why was the Green Revolution important?

   • The Green Revolution laid the foundation for a subsequent era of genetically modified crops, globalization of agriculture, and even greater dominance of agribusiness giants in the food system. Today, consumers are often disconnected from the people who grow their food and how it is grown.

   Green Revolution: History, Technologies, and Impact - Treehugger

   www.treehugger.com/green-revolution-history-technologies-and-impact-5189596

   See all results for this question

   What was the scientific aspect of the Green Revolution?

   • One would be the natural monsoon and the other an artificial 'monsoon.' ¨The artificial monsoon came in the form of huge irrigation facilities. Dams were built to arrest large volumes of natural monsoon water which were earlier being wasted. Simple irrigation techniques were also adopted. This was the scientific aspect of the Green Revolution.

   The Green Revolution - Coolgeography.co.uk

   www.coolgeography.co.uk/A-level/AQA/Year 12/Food supply/Managing food supply/Green Revolution.htm

   See all results for this question

   Who led the Green Revolution?

   • Both the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation were heavily involved in its initial development in Mexico. [ 6 ][ 7 ] A key leader was agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the "Father of the Green Revolution", who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. He is credited with saving over a billion people from starvation. [ 8 ]

   Green Revolution - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

   See all results for this question

4. www.britannica.com › event › green-revolutionGreen revolution | Definition, Advantages, Importance ...

   www.britannica.com › event › green-revolution

   • Cached

   Oct 22, 2024 · Green revolution, great increase in production of food grains (especially wheat and rice) that resulted in large part from the introduction into developing countries of new, high-yielding varieties, beginning in the mid-20th century.

   • Author: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

5. www.treehugger.com › green-revolution-historyGreen Revolution: History, Technologies, and Impact - Treehugger

   www.treehugger.com › green-revolution-history

   • Cached

   • History
   • Technologies
   • Impacts
   • Agriculture Today

   The Green Revolution transformed rural economies using industrial food production systems already widespread in wealthy western countries, but with new plant varieties. In the 1940s, an Iowa-born agronomist named Norman Borlaug began working with Mexican scientists on a more disease-resistant, high-yield wheat. Many Mexican farmers at the time stru...

   See full list on treehugger.com

   In addition to plant genetics, the basis for this agricultural revolution was a package of interventions to supercharge crop productivity, based largely on American industrialized techniques that had made places like California a global agricultural leader. This included enriching soil by applying powerful chemical fertilizers and combating plant p...

   See full list on treehugger.com

   Even early on, critics warned of potential ecological and socioeconomic consequences and began questioning whether this agricultural transformation was really helping smallholder farmers and rural communities. And the nascent environmental movement, particularly after the publication of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 book Silent Spring, raised...

   See full list on treehugger.com

   The Green Revolution laid the foundation for a subsequent era of genetically modified crops, globalization of agriculture, and even greater dominance of agribusiness giants in the food system. Today, consumers are often disconnected from the people who grow their food and how it is grown. And while production has increased, so has the number of und...

   See full list on treehugger.com

   • Author: Autumn Spanne

6. www.coolgeography.co.uk › A-level › AQAThe Green Revolution - Coolgeography.co.uk

   www.coolgeography.co.uk › A-level › AQA

   • Cached

   The Green Revolution is the term used to describe the transformation in agricultural practices in many parts of the developing world between 1940 and the 1960s. This revolution sought to eradicate famine in many nations and massively increase food production, by effectively ending subsistence agriculture and replacing it with commercial ...

7. Videos

   • 

     10:00

     youtube.com

     What Is the Green Revolution? | World History Project

     23 Nov 2019

     77.5K views

   • 

     20:12

     youtube.com

     How green is the energy revolution really?

     23 Nov 2023

     368.1K views

   • 

     8:00

     study.com

     Green Revolution | Definition, Impact & Examples

     24 Jul 2013

     1.1M views

   View all

8. www.bbc.co.uk › news › business-54978462Is this really a green revolution? - BBC News

   www.bbc.co.uk › news › business-54978462

   Nov 17, 2020 · Critics cry that if there is a bigger crisis than coronavirus, it is climate change and there are no vaccines for this one on the horizon. But in one way there is a mini-revolution here. In the...

9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Green_RevolutionGreen Revolution - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Green_Revolution

   • Cached

   The Green Revolution, or the Third Agricultural Revolution, was a period of technology transfer initiatives that saw greatly increased crop yields. [1] [2] These changes in agriculture began in developed countries in the early 20th century and spread globally until the late 1980s. [3]

10. www.bbc.com › news › business-54978462Is this really a green revolution? - BBC

    www.bbc.com › news › business-54978462

    • Cached

    Nov 17, 2020 · There was also money for new nuclear - big and small - and a drive to make new homes more efficient by retro-fitting old ones with better insulation, or replacing old gas boilers with new...

11. www.thoughtco.com › green-revolution-overview-1434948History and Overview of the Green Revolution - ThoughtCo

    www.thoughtco.com › green-revolution-overview-1434948

    • Cached

    Oct 8, 2024 · The Green Revolution was a period of agricultural innovation that introduced high-yield crops, fertilizers, and modern farming techniques.