Being a Luddite myself, and something of a technophobe, and certainly anti-progressive, which may upset some conservatives who worship technology, I was delighted to read of the critique of the Green Revolution. The Green Revolution involved the use of new crops to increase productivity. The idea was that the Third World was facing a Malthusian trap, of population outstripping food production. However, the simplistic Malthusian theory does not account for the full facts, as food production and population increase are not unconnected variables, but depend upon each other. It was the crude Malthusian assumption that fuelled the Green Revolution.
https://mises.org/wire/stunning-success-green-revolution-yet-another-progressive-myth