green revolution
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.46 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The set of wide-ranging technological changes to agriculture in the 20th century, particularly in developing countries, which allowed for greater food production capacity.
name
Alternative letter-case form of Green Revolution.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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.""
- "The Green Revolution was, as [Norman] Borlaug recognized, merely a transition to an onrushing future where billions more will want the same things we in the United States and the rest of the developed world already have."
- "Swaminathan went on to become the chief architect of India's “green revolution”, which would tranform a chronically hungry nation and perpetual ward of foreign donors into one of the world's largest food producers."
Etymology
Coined by former chief of the US foreign aid program (USAID) William Steen Gaud in 1968, modeled on Red Revolution and White Revolution.
Synonyms
Third Agricultural Revolution