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Agriculture's Green Revolution helped meet the world's increasing demand for food, but it also contributes to a warming planet. With the advent of the Green Revolution (1940s- ‘60s), agricultural practices have expanded and intensified. As these revolutions led to the domestication, diversification, and plant reliance on fertilizers and pesticides, the emission of greenhouse gases increased, and is still rising. It is known that these greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, contribute to climate change.Since these gases are emitted from agricultural practices, global warming may be influenced by more factors than the general public is aware. It can be concluded that previous agricultural advancements have been beneficial in supplying food, but while they are feeding the growing human population, agricultural practices are also feeding global climate change. 

• Norman Ernest Borlaug was an American biologist who has been called as the father of the Green Revolution. 
• He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.

The green revolution is the increased crop production in developing countries. M. S. Swaminathan is a father of green revolution in India. High yielding variety of seeds were used to increase the crop production. 

Answer is option D i.e. "Both A and B"
Agriculture output is dependent upon the quality of seeds which are highly responsive to inputs like fertilizers and water. Green Revolution technologies uses chemical fertilizers which made it possible to supply crops with extra nutrients, for increased crop yield. Green revolution also helped in developing technologies that ensure availability of water for irrigation.

The green revolution is the increased crop production in developing countries. M.S. Swaminathan is a father of green revolution in India. High yielding variety of seeds were used to increase the crop production. 

Green revolution refers to a research and development in the field of agriculture worldwide. The initiatives led by Norman Barlang, the father of green revolution, who received the Nobel prize in 1970, credited with saving over a billion people from starvation, involved the development of agriculture.