green revolution

Proper noun capitalized: Green Revolution

Green Revolution

1. The set of wide-ranging technological changes to agriculture in the 20th century, particularly in developing countries, which allowed for greater food production capacity.
   • The Green Revolution, we keep hearing, is losing momentum. And sometimes it looks that way, with drought in Africa and Europe, famine in Somalia, one crisis after another in India, 17 or 18 civil wars in Africa.1993 July 15, Richard Critchfield, “For Green Revolutionaries, A Latin American Triumph”, in International Herald Tribune
   • The political journalist Alexander Cockburn was even less complimentary: "Aside from Kissinger, probably the biggest killer of all to have got the peace prize was Norman Borlaug, whose ‘green revolution’ wheat strains led to the death of peasants by the million."2014 April 1, John Vidal, quoting Alexander Cockburn, “Norman Borlaug: humanitarian hero or menace to society?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms:

   Third Agricultural Revolution