explain the impact of green revolution and how it was succesful in solving the food problem
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Explanation:
The green revolution thereby was intended to overcome food shortages in India by increasing the yields of agricultural produce with the help of better irrigation systems, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural machinery, etc but also principally with the help of crop intensification focused on more resistant high
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In April of 1969, then president of the Rockefeller Foundation, George Harrar called a
meeting to address the problem of world hunger. In attendance were 16 leaders from the world’s
major foreign assistance agencies that were also concerned with agricultural development. One
of those in attendance was Lowell S. Hardin, author of “Meetings that Changed the World:
Bellagio 1969: The Green Revolution” (Hardin 2008).
The Rockefeller Foundation had already been working with partners in developing
countries to develop technology to increase food production. They held the meeting in Bellagio,
Italy to emphasize the importance of scientific advancements in farming techniques as opposed
to food shipments to poor countries by aid organizations. They presented the positive impacts
achieved by the major international agricultural research centers. One of these achievements was
the introduction of new varieties of seeds developed by plant scientist Norman Borlaug that were
“stocky, disease-resistant, fast-growing and highly-responsive to fertilizer” (Hardin 2008: 471).