Each nation must reorient their agricultural systems toward modes of production that are not only highly productive, but also highly sustainable.
The green revolution is NOT capable of promoting ecosystems resilience because it is too dependent on inputs that must be purchased outside of the farm such as: improved/hybrid seed, fertilizers, pesticides, fuels, machinery, technology, etc. The green revolution in the 1960s was heralded as the way to eradicate famine from the world yet this ambitious goal has never been achieved. Instead of promoting ecosystems resilience, the green revolution has contributed to many environmental problems and also social problems in poor, developing countries. In sum, the green revolution (in my opinion) has worked well for agribusiness corporations while ruining the livelihood of millions of peasant farms around the world.
Dear Minaketan Bag, Here below is the title about the newest book with a brief description. I trust this should be another good read.
Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food By Timothy A. Wise, The New Press
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“likely to kick up a storm in agriculture and development circles”
Scholar Timothy A. Wise shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Wise details how agribusiness and its philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests, and argues that policies promoted by the Gates Foundation-funded Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) are failing to deliver productivity and income improvements for small-scale farmers in Africa. Wise also takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices without chemicals or imported hybrid or genetically engineered seeds.
“Hundreds of billions of dollars spent on fertilizer and hybrid seed subsidies by Kenya and other African countries over the past few years have gone down the drain, a new book argues,” writes Julius Segei in Kenya’s largest independent newspaper, the The Daily Nation. “The scholar’s verdict that there is little evidence of any green revolution coming to Africa more than 10 years after AGRA is likely to kick up a storm in agriculture and development circles.”
I Agree with Bruno Borsari ( Instead of promoting ecosystems resilience, the green revolution has contributed to many environmental problems and also social problems in poor, developing countries).
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