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  • Billions Served (Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution)

    07/03/2002 4:50:07 PM PDT · by TomB · 16 replies · 229+ views
    Reason Magazine ^ | April 2000 | Ronald Bailey
    REASON * April 2000 Billions Served Three decades after he launched the Green Revolution, agronomist Norman Borlaug is still fighting world hunger--and the doomsayers who say it's a lost cause. Interviewed by Ronald Bailey Who has saved more human lives than anyone else in history? Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970? Who still teaches at Texas A&M at the age of 86? The answer is Norman Borlaug. Who? Norman Borlaug, the father of the "Green Revolution," the dramatic improvement in agricultural productivity that swept the globe in the 1960s. Borlaug grew up on a small farm in...