green revolution
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- noun
- /ɡrin ˌrɛvəˈluːʃən/
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revolución verde
- The green revolution introduced new farming techniques that dramatically increased food production worldwide.
- green revolution technologies
- green revolution in India
- transfer of green revolution
Examples
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The construction boom during the developmentalist period spurred the process of rural-urban migration, while the green revolution modernized potato production.
Academic text (1997) -
During the 1960s, the green revolution led to the development of high-yield crop varieties that helped many countries achieve food security.
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Yet the green revolution had not come to Africa.
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The importance of this green revolution is it made these regions food independent.
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"We are all aware that 'the green revolution' has increased crop yields around the world.
Blog text (10) -
The green revolution in the Philippines has been almost entirely lowland-based.
Academic text (1994) -
The American scientist Norman Borlaug was responsible for the "green revolution" that fed millions of hungry people.
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The green revolution beat back famine in Asia and Latin America, disproving the dire Malthusian predictions.
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The introduction of green-revolution rice technologies intensifies local work burdens and demands precise, uniform timing of cultivation activities to increase yields.
Academic text (1994) -
Thanks to advancements made during the green revolution, farmers can now produce more crops using less land and water.
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Morphology
The meaning 'a large-scale shift toward sustainable/eco-friendly practices' is directly and transparently built from 'green' (ecological/sustainable) + 'revolution' (a rapid or major change). This compositional, metaphorical extension of 'revolution' to non-political domains is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Green revolution came from a dramatic change in farming when new seeds, fertilizers and machines turned fields green and made them produce much more food. Here green means plants and farming and revolution means a sudden, big change, so the phrase came to mean 'a time of large increases in food production'.