Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Food Security and Sustainability |
| Editors | Pasquale Ferranti, Elliot M. Berry, Jock R. Anderson |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Pages | 147-151 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Volume | 3 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780128126882 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780128126875 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Social Anthropology
- Human Geography
Free 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