Reply to ‘the green revolution did not increase poverty and hunger for millions’

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe _NATURE PLANTS_ REPLY — We thank Mehta1 for his correspondence, and acknowledge his citations regarding global poverty and per capita calorie

supplies during the time of the Green Revolution. In _A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things_2, Patel & Moore themselves state that global crop yields increased during the Green

Revolution and that real food prices fell worldwide during that time. However, we feel that Mehta’s arguments do not disprove Patel & Moore’s arguments or the statement in the review.

Just as countries can see rising gross domestic product (GDP) and a rise in poverty rates at the same time, increased crop yields and ‘availability’ of calories does not prove false the

contention that, in developing countries, many people did not actually benefit from Green Revolution policies and may even have suffered from export-oriented agribusiness. This is a preview

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(2018) * Patel, R. & Moore, J. W. _History of the World in Seven Cheap Things_. (Verso, London, 2018). Google Scholar  * Rosset, P. _Lessons from the Green Revolution_ (Food First,

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