Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland, initially by increasing rice income through the adoption of modern rice technology and gradually diversifying their income sources away from farm to nonfarm activities....

The author challenges the view that the failure to implement land reform in the past has hindered agricultural productivity. Providing some useful new data, he describes how the Green Revolution in the countryside introduced under the New Order has led to substantial and sustained increase in...

Agricultural intensification riding on the Green Revolution ushered bountiful production of selected staples (rice, wheat, maize) in the developing nations and caused a significant economic growth. It showered a new hope through a package of high-yielding seeds of rice and wheat, laying networks...

Chapter 1. The Rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa: Issues and opportunities -- Chapter 2. The Role of Extension in the Green Revolution -- Chapter 3. The Case of Cote d’Ivoire: Learning from Experts of Rice Farming Management and Peer Farmers about Rice Production -- Chapter 4. The...