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(Thesis – Paragraph 1)

 

·   Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt.

·   Support an argument in response to the prompt using at least 4 documents.

·   Use at least one additional piece of specific historical evidence relevant to an argument about the prompt.

·   For at least three documents, explain the document’s Intended Audience and/or Purpose

(A/P – Within paragraphs 3 and/or 4)

 

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·   The Green Revolution had many causes and consequences from 1945 to the present including the need for crop production fueled by economic prosperity, the negative effects on the environment brought on by new technologies and chemicals, and the increasingly defined social differences.

·   During the Green Revolution, the introduction of new, scientifically bred crops and uses of new technologies were prominent worldwide. The new crops were to help poorer countries and impacted the Punjab state of India, the role of women, traditional values, and worldwide food supply.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzxAd8CVSIs

Planet T-Shirt (There are 5 videos that will play continuously once you start the first one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Zod7Sd3rQ&list=PLp-wXwmbv3z8aAJrhyttiqPMiKy0WVJym

 

 

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Document 3 – Source: Chidambaram Subramaniam, India’s minister for food and agriculture (1964–1967), in his 1970 interview.

Farmers in the Punjab [a state in northwest India] were the pioneers of Green Revolution technology. If not for them, I am convinced we would not have made a success of it. They had developed into a very hardy lot of enterprising people. And therefore, when this new technology was offered to them, they took to it like fish to water. Everybody competed with one another to demonstrate that he was best able to utilize the new technology.

Document 4 – Source: Mrs. Dula, wife of a Mexican agricultural official, in a conversation with a United Nations official, circa 1970.

 

If you fly from Tucson, Arizona, to Hermosillo, Mexico, what you are going to see is a type of agriculture that makes you rich, so rich. You will see houses like you’ve never seen in Mexico City, swimming pools and everything. They have such a lot of money. The ladies of these rich Mexican farmers like to save, so they form a club, and once a month they go to Tucson [to shop]. Some saving!

Document 5 – Source: Focus, FAO newsletter, circa 1987.

 

How the Green Revolution affects rural people depends on whether they are wage earners, cultivators or consumers, whether they come from landed or landless, rich or poor, male-or female-headed households.

 

Studies on the impact of the Green Revolution have shown that technological change can generate major social benefits but at the same time generate significant costs for particular categories of rural women that are different in kind and in intensity form those experienced by men.

 

It has:

·   increased the need for cash incomes in rural households to cover the costs of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, forcing women to work as agricultural laborers;

·   increased the need for unpaid female labor for farming tasks thereby augmenting women’s already high labor burden;

·   limited women’s wage-earning opportunities through mechanization.

For the worksheet below, you need to complete all of the “Describe” and “Evidence” boxes and 3 of the “A/P” boxes. For your essay, you only need to describe and give evidence from at least 4 documents and A/P at least 3 documents.

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Contextualization prompts- Use these prompts to help you write your contextualization paragraph

What was the Green Revolution?    When did it begin?

What prompted it to begin?      What technologies did it encompass?

 

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