ESPM 165 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Green Revolution In India, Port-Au-Prince, Swaminathan
3 May 2020
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Port au prince emptying of the countryside. Heart of argument capital intensive argument (began in phase 2) Norman borlaugh nobel peace prize, 1970, saving the world from hunger by coming up with miracle agriculture, based on a new kind of seeds, transform the world. India played a big part, operation costs very high though so devil side. Unrest in india by the 60s, signed the world bank documents (one of the og countries in 1944) but then joined again after independence, not aligned nations member with internal politics. Uneasy world bank, uneasy jfk, spawned usaid and peacecorps, new view by jfk of legitimiation (law and order, social services). Huge push for land reform by poor peasants and lots of grassroots organizing, bengal famine sweeping over the country so contributed to food insecurity interest. Borlaugh"s goal to produce lots of grain and helping the us economy by exporting: funded, began working on wheat in mexico, cross breeding too.
