The Green Revolution in Asia: Lessons for Africa

| Jun 19, 2016 | Food and Ecological Agriculture | 28 comments

The Green Revolution in Asia: Lessons for Africa

Asia, which adopted the ‘Green Revolution’ model in the 1960s, has invaluable lessons to offer to Africa in  striving for food security. For instance, a growing number of farmers are turning back to non-chemical or less-chemical agriculture as the costs of the GR system rose while yields have stagnated. There is also a whole range of information and knowledge now on alternative  systems of agriculture that are adapted from traditional local systems.

 

This paper  was written for the Conference on Ecological Agriculture: Mitigating Climate Change, Providing Food Security and Self-Reliance for Rural Livelihoods in Africa, which was held in on 26-28 November 2008.

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