Approach to a Village

Yujiro Hayami and Masao Kikuchi

Chapter 1 in A Rice Village Saga, 2000, pp 1-21 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Waves of modernizing forces, such as commercialization and new technology, have been pressing major changes upon rural communities in the Third World. Fears have often been expressed that these forces are destroying the traditional community institutions based on the principles of mutual help and income-sharing, thereby creating greater inequalities and a higher incidence of poverty in the rural sector. Such concerns have been expressed as a result of the development and diffusion of modern rice and wheat varieties since the late 1960s, popularly called ‘the Green Revolution’. This book does not intend to add to debates on the economic and social consequences of the Green Revolution, on which prolific literature has been accumulated (Griffin, 1974; International Rice Research Institute, 1978; Lipton, 1989; David and Otsuka, 1994). By following the debates, however, we see the danger of trying to identify the effect of the Green Revolution or any one force of modernization without due consideration of its interactions with other forces. Such an approach has often resulted in a misunderstanding of the real causes of poverty and inequality (Hayami, 1992).

Keywords: Total Factor Productivity; Rice Field; Green Revolution; Rice Farming; International Rice Research Institute (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230599185_1

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