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'''Norman Ernest Borlaug''' (1914-2009) was an American agricultural [[scientist]] and [[Nobel Peace Prize]] winner.  He is the main founder of the [[green revolution|Green Revolution]]<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/borlaug-bio.html</ref>, which taught the world to feed itself thereby saving hundreds of millions of lives. His breeding of high-yielding crop varieties helped to avert mass famines that were widely predicted in the 1960s, altering the course of history. Largely because of his work, countries that had been food deficient, like Mexico and India, became self-sufficient in producing cereal grains.  The Green Revolution eventually came under attack from environmental and social critics who said it had created more difficulties than it had solved. Dr. Borlaug responded that the real problem was not his agricultural techniques, but the runaway population growth that had made them necessary.  

'''Norman Ernest Borlaug''' (1914-2009) was an American agricultural [[scientist]] and [[Nobel Peace Prize]] winner.  He is the main founder of the [[green revolution|Green Revolution]],<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/borlaug-bio.html</ref> which taught the world to feed itself thereby saving hundreds of millions of lives. His breeding of high-yielding crop varieties helped to avert mass famines that were widely predicted in the 1960s, altering the course of history. Largely because of his work, countries that had been food deficient, like Mexico and India, became self-sufficient in producing cereal grains.  The Green Revolution eventually came under attack from environmental and social critics who said it had created more difficulties than it had solved. Dr. Borlaug responded that the real problem was not his agricultural techniques, but the runaway population growth that had made them necessary.  

   

   

==Quotes==

==Quotes==

{{cquote|I now say that the world has the technology – either available or well advanced in the research pipeline – to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology? While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called “organic” methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of the low income, food-deficit nations cannot.<ref>30th Anniversary Lecture, The Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, September 8, 2000 </ref>}}

{{cquote|I now say that the world has the technology – either available or well advanced in the research pipeline – to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology? While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called “organic” methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of the low income, food-deficit nations cannot.<ref>30th Anniversary Lecture, The Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, September 8, 2000</ref>}}

==External link==

==External links==

* [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/business/energy-environment/14borlaug.html?_r=1&hp ''New York Times'' obituary, Sept. 13, 2009]

* [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/business/energy-environment/14borlaug.html?_r=1&hp ''New York Times'' obituary, Sept. 13, 2009]

* [http://www.worldfoodprize.org/borlaug/borlaug-history.htm#greenrevolution Green Revolution]

* [http://www.worldfoodprize.org/borlaug/borlaug-history.htm#greenrevolution Green Revolution]

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