Several phenomenons made changes in agricultural practices unavoidable in many third world countries.
First and foremost, since the late 50's, the population is growing at a very high rate in most of these countries thanks to the improvements made in health conditions. In India, the population went up from 300 million in 1947 up to more than one billion nowadays but in some African countries the population rose at an even higher pace. Traditional agricultural systems were not fit anymore to feed such a large population and had to be enhanced, renewed or completely changed.
Another reason why agricultural practices were to change is globalization itself which changes people's way of life even in the most remote areas of the world. Combined with the need for new methods, one is to understand how much agriculture changed in third world countries over the past 50 years.
Two countries in particular are of interest in this field: India and Ethiopia, in order to comprehend both how local responses to globalization can be either a failure or a success.
As for India, the "green revolution" is a perfect example of a great success based on the implementation of foreign techniques however transformed and "globalized" to fit the Indian culture, needs, and way of life.
[...] India is home to more than one billion people, making it the second largest country in the world in terms of population. In spite of the economic growth that India benefits from for over a decade, most people remain in poverty for reasons said to be its “fiscal policies and public expenditure (as well as lack of) physical infrastructure as well as social infrastructure like health and education”[1]. In order to provide work for this huge population, it was then necessary to adapt modern techniques to the Indian context as a too violent mechanization would create a big deal of unemployment. [...]
[...] Sarvodaya Vishva Lekha publication. Pg Unknown (2006). Green revolution. Retrieved April from Wikipedia Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_revolution Ayenew Haileselassie and Panos Features Staff (2004). Ethiopia's struggle over land reform. [...]
[...] Among the regions of Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, describe two examples of how they changed their agricultural practices in response to global and domestic conditions, and one example of how they incorporated traditional practices? Several phenomenons made changes in agricultural practices unavoidable in many third world countries. First and foremost, since the late 50's, the population is growing at a very high rate in most of these countries thanks to the improvements made in health conditions. In India, the population went up from 300 million in 1947 up to more than one billion nowadays but in some African countries the population rose at an even higher pace. [...]
[...] Ethiopia's response to globalization and domestic conditions is at the opposite of the Indian relative success. Taken aside the starvations that occurred during the 80s for political reasons many people are still starving to death. In order to prevent this tragedy, the government launched a new campaign aimed at enhancing the country's agriculture. The government is nowadays trying what it calls a “third which would be “combining community ownership with private ownership, which would allow communities to manage the land and buy plots if farmers decide to sell. [...]
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