This project studied attempts to introduce Green Revolution technology in rural areas of 26 countries, including Colombia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tunisia and Zambia. The project focused on the critical role of existing agrarian institutions in determining the impact of the new agricultural technology on rural people, and it highlighted the effects of the introduction of high-yielding varieties of foodgrain on small cultivators.
Publications – Selected Books
- Food and the New Agricultural Technology, Ingrid Palmer, UNRISD, 1972
- Science and Agricultural Production, Ingrid Palmer, UNRISD, 1972
- The Green Revolution: An economic analysis, Keith Griffin, UNRISD, 1972
- Growth with Justice in Asian Agriculture: An exercise in policy formulation, V.K.R.V. Rao, UNRISD, 1974
- The Political Economy of Agrarian Change: An essay on the Green Revolution, UNRISD and Macmillan, London, 1974
- The Social and Economic Implication of Large-Scale Introduction of New Varieties of Foodgrain: Summary of conclusions of a global research project, UNRISD, 1974
- The New Rice in the Philippines, Ingrid Palmer, UNRISD, 1975
- Modernizing Mexican Agriculture: Socioeconomic implications of technological change, 1940-1970, Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara, UNRISD, 1976
- — La Modernización de la agricultura Mexicana, Siglo XXI Editores, Mexico City, 1978; sixth edition 1988
- Some Social and Economic Aspects of the Introduction of New Varieties of Paddy in Malaysia: A village case study, U.N. Bhati, UNRISD, 1976
- Rice Revolution in Sri Lanka, N.D. Abdul Hameed et al., UNRISD, 1977
- The New Agrarian Technology and India, Biplab Dasgupta, UNRISD and Macmillan, London, 1977
- The New Rice in Indonesia, Ingrid Palmer, UNRISD, 1977
- Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Want: Social and economic implications of the Green Revolution, Andrew Pearse, UNRISD and Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980