A modern-day ‘green revolution’

The ‘green revolution’ was a massive and fundamental change in development economics, but it’s really ancient history to today’s modern students. So read on to find out about a modern-day revolution in Vietnam’s rice industry…

In development economics, I often talk to students about the ‘green revolution’ and how technological change can be a massive help to a developing country, but they tend to view this as being some event long in the past and therefore fail to connect to it. But I’ve just come across this BBC news article on a much more recent technological change which has made a massive difference to the rice industry in Vietnam. I’ll definitely be using this as a useful case study when we come onto this topic.

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