Political economy of agrarian change
- 2nd ed.
- London Macmillan 1979
- 268p.
The story of the green revolution is a story of a revolution that failed. The underdeveloped world as a whole has not experienced an acceleration in the trend rate of growth of food or agricultural production; even wheat has experienced a marked acceleration only in Asia, while the trend in rice, if anything , has declined since the new varieties were developed in the mid -1960s .