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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 ]
As a result, Mexico became a net exporter of wheat by 1963. Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations. [5] Borlaug is often called "the father of the Green Revolution", [6] [7] and is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation.
The Mexican Revolution was extensively photographed as well as filmed, so that there is a large, contemporaneous visual record. "The Mexican Revolution and photography were intertwined." [184] There was a large foreign viewership for still and moving images of the Revolution.
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo [a] (born 24 June 1962) is a Mexican politician, scientist, and academic who in October 2024 became the 66th president of Mexico and the first woman to hold that office.
The Ejido: Mexico's Way Out. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1937. Stevens, D.F. "Agrarian Policy and Instability in Porfirian Mexico," The Americas 39:2(1982). Tannenbaum, Frank. The Mexican Agrarian Revolution, New York: MacMillan 1929. Tutino, John. From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico. Princeton: Princeton University ...
The United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution was varied and seemingly contradictory, first supporting and then repudiating Mexican regimes during the period 1910–1920. [1] For both economic and political reasons, the U.S. government generally supported those who occupied the seats of power, but could withhold official recognition.
The Myth of the Revolution: Hero Cults and the Institutionalization of the Mexican State, 1920–1940. New York: Greenwood Press 1986. Orellana, Margarita de, Filming Pancho Villa: How Hollywood Shaped the Mexican Revolution: North American Cinema and Mexico, 1911–1917. New York: Verso, 2007; Osorio, Rubén.
Zapatismo is the armed movement identified with the ideas of Emiliano Zapata, one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution, reflected mainly in the Plan of Ayala (1911). The members of the Liberation Army of the South led by Zapata were known as "Zapatistas". Zapatismo is a form of agrarian socialism.