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| Name | The Green Revolution Reconsidered:The Impact of High-Yielding Rice Varieties in South India |
| Description | P. K. Aiyasamy, Neal Bliven, Barbara Harriss, John Harriss, Mauricio Jaramillo, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, V. Rajagopalan, and Sudhir Wanmali, Edited by Peter B.R. Hazell and C. Ramasamy, 286 pages / 199, Published for IFPRI by Johns Hopkins University PressTHE "GREEN REVOLUTION"—a term used for rapid increases in wheat and rice yields in developing countries brought about by improved varieties combined with the expanded use of fertilizers and other chemical inputs—has had an important impact on incomes and food supplies in many developing countries. It has also spawned a lively controversy over its impact on the poor, with some critics claiming that inequality, and perhaps even absolute poverty, has increased in rural areas as a consequence of the green revolution. Given the importance of future rounds of yield-increasing technologies for fostering economic development and feeding growing populations in most developing countries, it is imperative that the economic and social forces released by these technologies be better understood so that they can be harnessed to achieve the twin goals of growth and equity. To this end, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) embarked, in the early 1980s, on a series of in-depth case studies of the impact of technological change in agriculture. This study of the North Arcot district in South India is the first in that series, and it was undertaken in close collaboration with the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) at Coimbatore. A companion study has also been undertaken in the Eastern Province of Zambia. A unique feature of these studies lies in the emphasis given to the growth linkage effects of agricultural growth on the rural nonfarm economy. Inspired by the earlier work of John Mellor and associates at Cornell University, it was hypothesized that the rural poor may obtain significant indirect benefits from agricultural growth because of increases in income-earning opportunities that arise in the local nonfarm economy. Moreover, this potential has not been adequately addressed in previous studies of the green revolution. |
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