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From Green Revolution to Agricultural Transformation: The Case of Short Duration Rice Varieties in Bangladesh

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Title From Green Revolution to Agricultural Transformation: The Case of Short Duration Rice Varieties in Bangladesh
 
Creator CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council
 
Subject income
farmers
crops
green revolution
agriculture
duration
world
intensification
systems
farming
poverty
rural areas
farming systems
smallholder farmers
africa
asia
rural poverty
consumption
rice
transformation
labor
agricultural transformation
south asia
s
varieties
sub-saharan africa
 
Description Most of the world’s extreme poor are located in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia (SA), live in rural areas, and depend on agriculture as their main source of income. A vast majority are smallholder farmers, and improving their incomes can help them escape poverty. In areas where a Green Revolution-style intensification may not be an option, an alternative is to diversify income sources in agriculture by changing farming systems to introduce higher value crops and to extend labor calendars to reduce periods of forced idleness. When looking at the origins of rural poverty, it is indeed notable that lack of opportunities to use labor productively during an important fraction of the year is highly correlated with low per capita consumption. This is what the Agricultural Transformation tries to achieve.

This research was supported by ISPC-SPIA under the grant “Strengthening Impact Assessment in the CGIAR (SIAC) (https://cas.cgiar.org/spia/news/strengthening-impact-assessment-cgiar-siac-2013-2016).”
 
Date 2018-09
2023-02-25T17:09:09Z
2023-02-25T17:09:09Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier ISPC. (2018). From Green Revolution to Agricultural Transformation: The Case of Short Duration Rice Varieties in Bangladesh, Brief N. 71. Rome: Independent Science and Partnership Council
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128955
https://iaes.cgiar.org/node/11889
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Publisher CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council