The Green Revolution: Socioeconomic Insecurity and Agricultural Displacement in India
This article discusses the Green Revolution, ostensibly implemented to address food insecurity in India. Instead, it deepened transitory food insecurity as well as systematically compounded exploitative systems of labour, landholding and capital distribution to the detriment of peasant and landless...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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York University Libraries
1997-08-01
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| Series: | Refuge |
| Online Access: | https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/21923 |
| Summary: | This article discusses the Green Revolution,
ostensibly implemented to address
food insecurity in India. Instead, it
deepened transitory food insecurity as
well as systematically compounded
exploitative systems of labour,
landholding and capital distribution to
the detriment of peasant and landless
agriculturalists. The project increased
the economic risk of agricultural labour
and the instability of the sector as a
whole. For these reasons, issues surrounding
the impact of the Green Revolution
inherently involve economic,
social and ecological displacement and
migration to urban and food-surplus
areas. A secondary displacement effect
involved the impact of the Green Revolution
on forests. Irrigation to support
it required dams and canals that
displaced people outside the market oriented
agricultural sector. The Green
Revolution is thus shown to have had
both primary and secondary displacement
effects. |
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| ISSN: | 0229-5113 1920-7336 |