Greg Easterbrook, writing in the Wall Street Journal, has a lovely tribute to Norman Borlaug, father of Green Revolution agriculture.
We need a lot more like him.
Greg Easterbrook, writing in the Wall Street Journal, has a lovely tribute to Norman Borlaug, father of Green Revolution agriculture.
We need a lot more like him.
Indeed. The man saved a billion lives through his efforts, and prevented mass starvation in the 1970s and 1980s (although he recognized that simply increasing agriculture was only half of the solution to solving hunger – the other half was population stabilization).