Green Revolution research saved an estimated 18 to 27 million hectares from being brought into agricultural production

Green Revolution research saved an estimated 18 to 27 million hectares from being brought into agricultural production.

New estimates of the impacts of germplasm improvement in the major staple crops between 1965 and 2004 on global land-cover change are presented, based on simulations carried out using a global economic model (Global Trade Analysis Project Agro-Ecological Zone), a multicommodity, multiregional computable general equilibrium model linked to a global spatially explicit database on land use. We est...

Measles Vaccination Has Saved an Estimated 17.1 Million Lives since 2000

An Assessment of the Impact of Agricultural Research in South Asia since the Green Revolution

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The Omics Revolution in Agricultural Research

The Agrochemicals Division cosponsored the 13th International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry International Congress of Pesticide Chemistry held as part of the 248th National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco, CA, USA, August 10-14, 2014. The topic of the Congress was Crop, Environment, and Public Health Protection; Technologies for a Changing World. O...

The green revolution and the evolution of agricultural education and research in India

561 Singh The British ruled India for more than 200 years, first in the name of the East India Company and then in the name of the British Crown. In the early period, the East India Company’s main interest was to obtain necessary raw materials, such as cotton and jute, for manufacturing finished goods in the United Kingdom, and other commodities, such as tobacco, sugar, indigo, and opium, for t...