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List of the Cons of the Green Revolution
1. The Green Revolution has led to an increase of artificial fertilizers.
The most significant disadvantage of the Green Revolution is that it can only be successful when artificial enhancers are added to the soil to support continued crop growth. If farmers were to grow the new strains of crops without pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers helping the process, then they would experience lower yields compared to the varieties that were grown traditionally. The new strains of wheat and rice were not as adaptive to local factors as the “normal” crops that were grown.
2. The Green Revolution has created high levels of food waste.
The world is actually growing more food than it can consume right now. 40% of the losses that we experience happens during processing or after agricultural workers harvest the fields. Most of the waste in the developed world where the Green Revolution was unnecessary occurs at the retail or consumer level instead. We will lose up to 50% of the foods that are grown each year in some categories. That means over 1.3 billion tons of food is grown and not consumed annually.
One of the most significant factors for food waste is the cost of it. Even though prices are moving downward for several crops, households living in poverty still struggle to make ends meet. About 20% of kids in the United States live in a food insecure household despite the high median income of the country.
3. The Green Revolution uses items that can harm the environment.
Because we have started using more synthetic chemicals and fertilizers to encourage larger yields on existing croplands, there are new issues with erosion and pollution that farmers must deal with every day. These components can pollute water systems that surround the fields where agricultural workers are producing food products. The items move downstream to expose other land areas that are not being worked. There are just as many concerns with the Green Revolution reducing soil quality levels as there are in the advantages that improve it.
4. The Green Revolution has created a growing resistance to synthetic chemicals.
One of the primary reasons that organizations are researching GMO’s for crops is that the plants and soil are developing a resistance to modern pesticides and herbicides. The Green Revolution forces us to continue looking at ways to involve plant chemistry so that we can maintain the increased yields that are possible. Although genetic modifications are generally treated as being safe, we do not have any long-term information about how these changes could impact human health.
5. The Green Revolution comes at a steep price.
Even though the addition of fertilizer and other synthetic additives can increase crop production, there are some farmers in the developing world who cannot afford these products. Some soil conditions are so poor that the number of additives necessary to produce a crop would cost more than the yields that were possible. In extremely poor conditions, a farmer may need $145 of product to produce less than $40 in returns per acre. Agricultural workers in the developed world may be able to handle this cost thanks to subsidies, but it may also put the hope of an income out of reach for those in poor countries.
6. The Green Revolution shifted our focus on cropland use.
According to information published by Vox in 2014 with National Geographic, about 55% of the world’s crop calories are consumed by humans. 36% of the croplands are currently being used for animal feed across the globe. That means the remainder is used as a cash crop for biofuels. In the United States, where cropland potential is at its highest, only 27% of the crap calories are directly consumed. Almost 2/3 of the crops grown in the U.S., including almost all of the soybeans, goes to animal feed.
7. The Green Revolution only solved some of the hunger crisis.
Although there are undoubtedly more people in the world today who are living in households that are food secure because of the Green Revolution, there is still a lot of hunger that we must solve. About one in four people are currently undernourished in the world today. Almost half of the children across the globe under the age of 5-years-old die because they lack access to proper nutrition. When the statistics of malnutrition and hunger are put together, roughly 10,000,000 people have their lives placed at risk because they lack access to food.
8. The Green Revolution can make the land become unusable.
The Green Revolution did make it possible for farmers to improve their yields thanks to soil management improvements. They are also discovering that the soil can become unusable faster because there are such high demands of productivity placed on it. Roughly 7.5 million acres of croplands are taken out of production because of degradation issues that are directly related to the overuse of fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides. Even in the United States, roughly 350 million acres of land has been lost to this change in farming techniques in the past 30 years.
The pros and cons of the Green Revolution suggest that it is always possible to meet our need to have food when we allow creativity and ingenuity to be our guides. We already produce more food than we need right now, so our next effort must be to improve our usage of what we have. That means we must develop a food delivery system that sits outside of a political agenda to ensure the people who need this resource the most can have it. We must also set aside socioeconomic barriers that stop people from having access to food.
After experiencing two world wars in less than 50 years, the world was at a turning point. Food shortages were becoming common even in countries that had viable agricultural infrastructure in place. There was also
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