The Green Revolution, however, was not without its shortcomings. As One Billion Hungry states, we need a new Revolution that addresses the limitations of the first, a Revolution in which there is renewed international interest due to the recent food price spikes.
The major limitations of the Green Revolution are detailed in Chapter 3 but this paper goes further, for example, bringing to light evidence that the technologies developed during the Green Revolution were largely designed for and distributed to men, thereby failing to meet the needs of women farmers. The unintended environmental impacts, for example on soil degradation and pollution, have contributed to a slowdown in yield growth seen since the mid-1980s...
@ The Green Revolution in Retrospect – One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
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