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Norman Ernest
Borlaug (born March 25, 1914) is an American agronomist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution.
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Borlaug (March 25, 1914- ) was born on a farm near Cresco, Iowa, to Henry and Clara
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Borlaug, the agronomist whose discoveries sparked the Green Revolution, has saved literally
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Borlaug, World Food Prize Founder and 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and the man who saved a billion lives.
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Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug speaking at the Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology in June 2003
Born
March 25, 1914 (1914-03-25) (age 94)
Cresco, Iowa, U.S.
Citizenship
United States
Nationality
USA
Alma mater
University of Minnesota
Known for
His role in the Green Revolution and for helping develop semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties
Notable awards
the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, the National Medal of Science, the Padma Vibhushan, and the Rotary International Award
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agronomist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution.[1] Borlaug is one of five people in history to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.[2] He is also an awardee of the Padma Vibhushan, India's highest civilian honour to non-citizens of exemplary accomplishment.
Borlaug received his Ph.D. degree in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.
During the mid-20th century, Borlaug led the introduction of these high-yielding varieties combined with modern agricultural production techniques to Mexico, Pakistan, and India. As a result, Mexico became a net exporter of wheat by 1963. Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations. These collective increases in yield have been labeled the Green Revolution, and Borlaug is often credited with saving over a billion people from starvation.[3] He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply.
More recently, he has helped apply these methods of increasing food production to Asia and Africa. Borlaug has continually advocated the use of his methods and biotechnology to decrease world famine. His work has faced environmental and socioeconomic criticisms, including charges that his methods have created dependence on monoculture crops, unsustainable farming practices, heavy indebtedness among subsistence farmers, and high levels of cancer among those who work with agriculture chemicals. He has emphatically rejected many of these as unfounded or untrue.[citation needed]In 1986, he established the World Food Prize to recognize individuals who have improved the quality, quantity or availability of food around the globe.
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