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Harry S. Truman And The Green Revolution

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During the presidency of Harry S. Truman, towards the end of world war II, he was faced with a worldwide depression. The population number began to increase rapidly and half of the world was faced with a shortage of food. As a result, President Truman along with the Ford and Rockefeller foundation initiated research in biotechnology. Subsequently, the Green Revolution was born from these years of research which would eventually impact third world countries. However, despite the Green Revolution’s breakthrough of biotechnology in the 1960’s and the recognition through the win of a Nobel Prize, there is a constant debate about the success of the Green Revolution. But what exactly did the Green Revolution purposely do successfully ?
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Being able to recover India from the harsh conditions of hunger would be a work in progress. In fact, an agriculturist, Peter B.R. Hazell, in his published work, Transforming agriculture: The Green Revolution in Asia, he shares that “ [In] one study … [they] found that over a 10-year period the spread of high-yielding rice in the North Arcot district of Tamil Nadu in southern India led farmers and landless workers to consume substantially more energy and protein. About one-third of the calorie increase could be attributed to increased rice production”(Hazell 2009, p. 29). The Green Revolution was able to prove to be the most successful method to be able to produce cereal-grains in poor countries. As for this case, the fact that the calorie intake was able to increase for the working class in India, was an example that the Green Revolution was able to plunge into hunger. The goal to reduce hunger globally was not primarily the purpose for this new revolution in the 60’s, but more as an advantage if it could possibly reduce hunger as an effect of the increase in agriculture …show more content…

In fact, according to the encyclopedia webpage, “Pakistan nearly doubled in five years, going from 4.6 million tons in 1965 (a record at the time) to 8.4 million tons in 1970” (“Green Revolution” 2018). At this rate, the Green Revolution was increasing productivity for third world countries in a range of about 5 years, enough to classify a country self sufficient. It was able to boost the economic growth for third countries as a result of the dramatic increase in yield. Yet, not every country in hunger was positively or at all impacted from the Green Revolution

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