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the IPB hosted a major “Symposium on Rural Modernization”,
which had as its aims to test the main concepts of Mosher’s Get-
ting Agriculture Moving among a heterogeneous group of 80
experts, running for a total of 16 days spread over a period of ten

weeks during September-November 1968, one full day was de-
voted to “Land reform, agricultural land and land use” among all
the specialized sessions devoted to production, processing, soils,
water, fertilizer, farmer incentives and ‘accelerators’. 10
In 1967 the ADC received a new grant from the Ford Foun-
dation to appoint a full-time “Participating Consultant” to the
SAE. The new consultant, the agricultural economist Dr. Willi-
am L. Collier, arrived soon thereafter and played an impor-
tant role in the SAE’s work in tracing the social and economic
impacts of Indonesia’s green revolution, to which we now turn.

C. Tracking the Green Revolution: the IPS and SDP
Surveys, 1969 - 1983

In 1969 the SAE initiated a major, multi-year study of the
“Factors Affecting the Production Impact of the High-Yielding
Rice Varieties” (commonly shortened to the “Rice Intensifi-
cation Surveys”, Intensifikasi Padi Sawah or IPS), with the
objective of identifying “the crucial factors that affect the
farmer’s use of the high-yielding varieties and the acceptance
of the new technology that accompanies these new varieties”.

10 ‘Symposium on Rural Modernization, in Relation to the National
Food Policy, Agricultural Development and Improving the Rural
Welfare’ September-November 1968. Organized by Bogor Agricul-
tural University. (RAC, ADC IV B 1.33)

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