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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A significant increase in agricultural productivity beginning in the 1940s and resulting from the introduction of high-yield varieties of grains, the use of pesticides, and improved management techniques.
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Examples
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The adoption of miracle varieties of rice and wheat in India and other nations led to what is called the Green Revolution.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995
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The mass uprisings in 2009—known as the Green Revolution—have dissipated because few protesters saw any hope of mustering the force necessary to defeat the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC and Basij paramilitary forces who brutally enforce Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's authority.
How to Topple the Ayatollahs Jamsheed K. Choksy 2011
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GHUDANI KALAM VILLAGE, India—As wheat production stagnates, the water table plunges and electricity blackouts remain a daily reality, farmers in the Indian state of Punjab are trying to escape the livelihood that made them famous and prosperous in the agricultural boom in the 1970s and 1980s known as the Green Revolution.
On Punjab's Farms, 'Everybody Has No Jobs' Geeta Anand 2011
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Forty years ago, a giant development effort known as the Green Revolution drove hunger from an India synonymous with famine and want.
Archive 2008-06-01 Jan 2008
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Forty years ago, a giant development effort known as the Green Revolution drove hunger from an India synonymous with famine and want.
India's Growth Outstrips Crops Jan 2008
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-IRAN: Anti-government protests have gripped Iran recently, a revival of unrest that began in June of 2009 known as the Green Revolution.
unknown title 2011
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This so-called Green Revolution, however, hasn't proved to be particularly green in the modern sense of the word, since the application of synthetic fertilizers can have devastating environmental consequences, such as the dead zones off the Gulf Coast.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2010
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This so-called Green Revolution, however, hasn't proved to be particularly green in the modern sense of the word, since the application of synthetic fertilizers can have devastating environmental consequences, such as the dead zones off the Gulf Coast.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2010
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This so-called Green Revolution, however, hasn't proved to be particularly green in the modern sense of the word, since the application of synthetic fertilizers can have devastating environmental consequences, such as the dead zones off the Gulf Coast.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2010
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Mass production of nitrogen based fertilizer is what has made the so called Green Revolution possible.
Wired Top Stories 2010
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