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‘The war on poverty turned out to be a war on the poor themselves’ (Veltmeyer 2011). Discuss with references to either the Green Revolution OR population control policies
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‘The war on poverty turned out to be a war on the poor themselves’ (Veltmeyer 2011).
Discuss with references to either the Green Revolution OR population control policies.
Under the presidency of McNamara, the World Bank’s war on poverty was declared in the
1960s with poverty being primarily defined as more a technical problem over it being a
social or political problem, therefore leading to ‘solutions’ being brought forward in order to
tackle the said problem (Sharma 2017). In this essay, I will be discussing the above
statement with specific reference to the Green Revolution in specifically India and how
despite it being classed as an agricultural revolution that was just one of many, it ended up
causing more problems/harm than solutions/good, therefore leading it to becoming more of
a war on the poor than to aid those living in poverty and instead allowed rich capitalist
countries to become richer.
The political discourse on poverty had receded to an almost complete silence (Santiago
2015), but as previous mentioned, poverty was defined as a technical problem by
McNamara, more so the result of a country’s low productivity and therefore the green
revolution was established with its primary aim being to introduce high yielding variety
seeds (HYVs) of cereals, use of fertiliser and more technical forms of irrigation to increase
the production of grains (Nelson et al 2019), this was seen as the solution to aid poverty,
food insecurity and malnutrition. The underlying rationale behind the use of the HYV’S was
that they would lead to regions having increased yields, therefore persuading farmers to be
in favour of the use of commercialised production instead of traditional means of
agriculture (Harwood 2019).
To introduce a commercialised form of agriculture, modern machinery was necessary to
plant and harvest at a quicker pace, however the machinery was too expensive and many
farmers, a majority being tenant farmers, could not afford to purchase and maintain it
without falling into debt, therefore not allowing them to move out of the poverty line. As
well as this, the use of mechanisation would mean that fewer people were needed to tend
to the fields, therefore leading to unemployment rates to increase and further increasing
the level of poverty. The Green Revolution created regional and interstate disparities with
the revolution being put in areas with adequate and sufficient supplies of water, fertilisers
and farm credit, however in areas where there was a lack of water, fertiliser or farm credit
were unable to achieve results at the same level and due to this also led to an increased
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