green revolution

noun

: the great increase in production of food grains (such as rice and wheat) due to the introduction of high-yielding varieties, to the use of pesticides, and to better management techniques

Examples of green revolution in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The first was the green revolution, which introduced into the Global South a range of new agricultural technologies that massively expanded the global food supply and earned the American agronomist Norman Borlaug the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. —Erez Manela, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021

Bold multilateral action on climate change could have an impact on the order of the green revolution. —Erez Manela, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021

Such actors played important roles in massively ambitious, transformative initiatives that took place in the Third World in that era, including the green revolution in agriculture and the global eradication of smallpox. —Erez Manela, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021

The opportunity there is the green revolution in the US, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the chance to be part of that green story. —Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1968, in the meaning defined above