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title: "Anthropology of development"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology_of_development"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T15:26:08.583172+00:00"
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== Agricultural development: the "Green Revolution" ==
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The term "Green Revolution" was first used in 1968 by former United States Agency for International Development (USAID) director William Gaud, who noted the spread of the new technologies:
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"These and other developments in the field of agriculture contain the makings of a new revolution. It is not a violent Red Revolution like that of the Soviets, nor is it a White Revolution like that of the Shah of Iran. I call it the Green Revolution."
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== See also ==
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Development anthropology
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Development criticism
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Development studies
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Food sovereignty
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Impact of microcredit
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Weapons of the weak
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== References ==
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== Sources ==
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Van Marle, Karin (2006). Sex, Gender, Becoming: Post-apartheid Reflections. PULP. ISBN 0-9585097-5-1.
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== Further reading ==
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Escobar, Arturo, 1995, Encountering Development, the making and unmaking of the Third World, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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Gardner, Katy and David Lewis, 1996, Anthropology, Development and the Post-Modern Challenge, Chicago, IL: Pluto Press.
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Isbister, John, 1998, Promise Not Kept: The Betrayal of Social Change in the third World. Fourth Edition. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press.
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Olivier de Sardan J.-P. 1995, Anthropologie et développement : essai en socio-anthropologie du changement social. Paris, Karthala.
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Schuurman, F.J., 1993, Beyond the Impasse. New Direction in Development Theory. Zed Books, London. |