A period of technological advancement in agriculture resulting in increased productivity.
The Green Revolution (1960s–80s) promoted high-input monoculture and male-headed households as model farmers; it displaced women's crop diversity management, undermined their land security, and increased their agrochemical exposure without consulting them.
Reference Green Revolution's yield gains while critically centering its gendered costs: land dispossession, deskilling of women farmers, chemical exposure disparities, and agrobiodiversity loss.
Women farmers maintained crop diversity and adaptive knowledge that Green Revolution frameworks overlooked; recognizing this reveals alternative pathways to productivity and resilience.
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