This article analyses the concept "Green Revolution" in order to identify its meanings as well as the
different historical time periods to which it has been applied. It begins identifying the diverse
significances attached to the term "Green Revolution" available in the literature. The second part
evaluates academic works using the term in connection with agrarian processes in the Nineteenth-Century and early Twentieth Century. The last section analyses Campaigns Against Hungerby Elvin C. Stakman (et al), as well as Agricultural Development: An International Perspective by Yujiro Hayami and Vernon Ruttan, as examples of the foundational and mythic literature about the Green Revolution.