By the late 1960s, it was becoming clear that the Green Revolution (GR) had succeeded only in part. Although crop yields, total production and food-per-capita were substantially higher, GR programmes were also increasing social inequality and damaging the environment, both of which began to ...
The Green Revolution in India has achieved self-sufficiency in food production. However, in the state of Haryana this has resulted in continuous environmen... RB Singh - 《Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment》 被引量: 349发表: 2000年 Confronting the environmental consequences of the Green Revolutio...
Confronting the environmental consequences of the Green Revolution in Asia: Intensive double or triple monocropping of rice has caused degradation of the paddy micro environment and reductions in rice yield growth in many irrigated... PL Pingali,MW Rosegrant - 《Eptd Discussion Papers》 被引量: ...
Biotechnologists focus on the potential of this new-millennium green revolution to feed the growing world population, which has added more than 1 billion people in the past decade alone. But other scientists worry about unknown human and ecological health risks. These concerns have stirred deep sci...
Air pollution poses a persuasive threat to global health, demonstrating widespread detrimental effects on populations worldwide. Exposure to pollutants, notably particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 µm (PM2.5), has been unequivocally linked to a spectrum of adverse health outcomes. A nuanced ...
Discuss how global warming might affect the long-term feasibility of hydroelectric power in some areas. Given the uncertainty involved in projecting the effects of global warming, how heavily should What is one of the negative impacts of the green revolution on natural resources...
Conceptual model of the effects of herbivore community distortion on woody cover. Shifts in the biomass and functional composition of herbivore communities are likely to mean that their net effect on woody cover is different now (a) to in the past (b). The green line represents the maximum tr...
sumption, along with considerable losses of biodiversity. Such changes in land use have enabled humans to appropriate an increasing share of the planet’s resources, but they also potentially undermine the capacity of ecosystems to sustain food production, ...
Global Consequences of Land Use Jonathan A. Foley et al. Science 309, 570 (2005); DOI: 10.1126/science.1111772 This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. If you wish to distribute this article to others, you can order high-quality copies for your colleagues, clients, or cu...
What are the effects of overshooting on our planet's natural resources and ecosystems? What is one of the negative impacts of the green revolution on natural resources? What would be the ecological impact of wiping out mosquitoes from the face of Earth? How would the dam impact the ...