Where was the Green Revolution anyway as the Arab Spring was blossoming in the region?
The new venture is the brainchild of founder and CEO of Green Revolution, Jay Whelan.
Those modern agricultural chemicals are what made the Green Revolution of the mid-20th century possible.
In short, it recommends many of the agricultural practices that the green revolution swept away.
New technologies were a necessary condition for the green revolution, but not a sufficient one.
The high-yield seeds of the Green Revolution were not only developed but often marketed by state-financed agricultural institutions.
But the Rome meeting did make a start on the longest of long-term goals: a second green revolution.
It was at Lasserre, though, that I finally got it: Europe is in the midst of a green revolution.
If it is to feed its people, Africa badly needs a green revolution.
Yet I feel that the green revolution has also had many hidden costs.
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This green revolution needs some deeds by governments if it is to continue.
The credit for this is widely but mistakenly given to the green revolution.
But in bigger dry Africa, such as in Jabi village, efforts to replicate Asia's green revolution have so far failed.
The green revolution, which spread enabling technologies of high-yield agriculture across the planet, resulted in doubling of grain production.
American researchers, in turn, partnered with Indian scientists to launch the Green Revolution that transformed life for generations of Indians.
The biggest fans of the green revolution say that the spread of solar and wind is a mark of success.
This matters, because the green revolution's triumph in Asia owed as much to political commitment as it did to technical ingenuity.
These promises embodied the claim that rich countries are pushing for a second Green revolution and are determined to combat global hunger.
This green revolution - it is truly for the whole of Africa.
Such action should provide the necessary support for a successful green revolution.
Without a new green revolution, farmers will need 60% more water to feed the 2 billion extra people who will be born between now and 2025.
They may also wonder where the prime minister is going to find the millions of rupees he has promised to spend on his Second Green Revolution.
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Many African countries are looking to the crop-driven "green revolution" of Asia for ideas, but Ms Sibanda points out that what Africa needs is a "rainbow" revolution.
The much heralded Green Revolution of the 1960s, with its miracle seeds, made India self-sufficient in staple foods, but in the last decade agriculture's growth rate has notably stagnated.
Hundreds of millions of lives were saved, which led to his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 and given the appellation the father of the green revolution.
Building on the Indian and American agricultural collaboration that led to the Green Revolution, we're launching a new partnership for a Evergreen Revolution to improve food security around the world.
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Natural gas-powered vehicles are another area where the green revolution is still in the early stage but shows promise of soon becoming a major integral part of our everyday life.
Many of these innovations are the result of public and private collaborations between the United States and India, the same collaboration that helped produce the first Green Revolution in the 1960s.
The United States also aims to increase foreign assistance to ease poverty, boost education, cancel the debts of poor countries, and launch a "green revolution" that produces sustainable supplies of food.
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