Green revolution

(noun)

A set of research and development of technology transfer initiatives occurring between the 1930s and the late 1960s (with prequels in the work of the agrarian geneticist Nazareno Strampelli in the 1920s and 1930s), that increased agricultural production worldwide.

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Examples of Green revolution in the following topics:

  • The Green Revolution

  • Problems in Forecasting Population Growth

    • The Green Revolution is an example of rapidly changing technology that lowered worldwide death rates, thus throwing off estimates of population change.
    • For example, in the mid-20th century, the Green Revolution in agriculture dramatically increased available food by spreading farming technology like fertilizer and increasing efficiency in agriculture.
    • The Green Revolution was a period of rapid technological innovation in agricultural, which made food resources more widely available than expected and thus reduced the global mortality rate.

  • Productivity Gains from Technology

    • Probably the first period in history in which an economic progress was observable during one generation was the British Agricultural Revolution in the 18th century.
    • High productivity growth began during the late 19th century in what is sometimes called the Second Industrial Revolution.
    • Most major innovations of the Second Industrial Revolution were based on the modern scientific understanding of chemistry, electromagnetism theory, and thermodynamics.
    • Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, some of the major contributors to productivity have been as follows:
    • Scientific agriculture: fertilizers and the green revolution, and livestock and poultry management;

  • Chloroflexus and Relatives

    • Chloroflexus aurantiacus is a photosynthetic bacterium isolated from hot springs, belonging to the green non-sulfur bacteria.
    • This belies their antiquated name green non-sulfur bacteria.
    • Chloroflexus aurantiacus is a photosynthetic bacterium isolated from hot springs, belonging to the green non-sulfur bacteria.
    • When grown in sunlight it is dark green.
    • In 1987, Carl Woese, regarded as the forerunner of the molecular phylogeny revolution, divided Eubacteria into 11 divisions based on 16S ribosomal RNA (SSU) sequences and grouped the genera Chloroflexus, Herpetosiphon, and Thermomicrobium into the "Green non-sulfur bacteria and relatives," which was temporarily renamed as "Chloroflexi" in Volume One of Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology.

  • The Spread of Revolution

  • Japan's Industrial Revolution

  • The October Revolution

  • Egypt's First Revolution

  • The Iranian Revolution

  • The Cultural Revolution