Green Revolution research saved an estimated 18 to 27 million hectares from being brought into agricultural production.

ABSTRACT: New estimates of the impacts of germplasm improvement in the major staple crops between 1965 and 2004 on global land-cover change are presented, based on simulations carried out using a global economic model (Global Trade Analysis Project Agro-Ecological Zone), a multicommodity, multiregional computable general equilibrium model linked to a global spatially explicit database on land use. We estimate the impact of removing the gains in cereal productivity attributed to the widespread adoption of improved varieties in developing countries. Here, several different effects--higher yields, lower prices, higher land rents, and trade effects--have been incorporated in a single model of the impact of Green Revolution research (and subsequent advances in yields from crop germplasm improvement) on l

SUBMITTER: Stevenson JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3666715 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature