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The Green Revolution, or the Third Agricultural Revolution, was a period of technology transfer initiatives that saw greatly increased crop yields. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] These changes in agriculture began in developed countries in the early 20th century and spread globally until the late 1980s. [ 3 ]
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The British Agricultural Revolution, or Second Agricultural Revolution, was an unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain arising from increases in labor and land productivity between the mid-17th and late 19th centuries. Agricultural output grew faster than the population over the hundred-year period ending in 1770, and ...
4000 BC – First use of light wooden ploughs in Mesopotamia (Modern day Iraq) 3500 BC – Irrigation was being used in Mesopotamia (Modern day Iraq) 3500 BC – First agriculture in the Americas, around Central Amazonia or Ecuador; 3000 BC – Turmeric, cardamom, pepper and mustard are harvested in the Indus Valley civilisation.
The Green Revolution exported the technologies (including pesticides and synthetic nitrogen) of the developed world to the developing world. Thomas Malthus famously predicted that the Earth would not be able to support its growing population. Still, technologies such as the Green Revolution have allowed the world to produce a food surplus. [190]
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Agricultural revolution may refer to: First Agricultural Revolution (circa 10,000 BC), the prehistoric transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture (also known as the Neolithic Revolution) Arab Agricultural Revolution (8th–13th century), The spread of new crops and advanced techniques in the Muslim world
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the UK experienced a massive increase in agricultural productivity known as the British Agricultural Revolution, which enabled an unprecedented population growth, freeing a significant percentage of the workforce from farming, and helping to drive the Industrial Revolution.