TY - JOUR AU - Biasucci, Mia PY - 1997/08/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Green Revolution: Socioeconomic Insecurity and Agricultural Displacement in India JF - Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees JA - Refuge VL - 16 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.25071/1920-7336.21923 UR - https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/21923 SP - 23-27 AB - This article discusses the Green Revolution,ostensibly implemented to addressfood insecurity in India. Instead, itdeepened transitory food insecurity aswell as systematically compoundedexploitative systems of labour,landholding and capital distribution tothe detriment of peasant and landlessagriculturalists. The project increasedthe economic risk of agricultural labourand the instability of the sector as awhole. For these reasons, issues surroundingthe impact of the Green Revolutioninherently involve economic,social and ecological displacement andmigration to urban and food-surplusareas. A secondary displacement effectinvolved the impact of the Green Revolutionon forests. Irrigation to supportit required dams and canals thatdisplaced people outside the market orientedagricultural sector. The GreenRevolution is thus shown to have hadboth primary and secondary displacementeffects. ER -