The plant breeder at the center of the Green Revolution. Working in Mexico from 1944, Borlaug bred short-strawed, disease-resistant wheats that turned fertilizer into grain instead of collapse, then carried them to India and Pakistan on the edge of famine. He received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, credited, in the common formulation the sources repeat with due caution, with saving as many as a billion lives. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Defining ContributionSemi-dwarf, disease-resistant wheat varieties and the Green Revolution 1 FAQs
Did Norman Borlaug develop the Green Revolution wheats on his own?
Borlaug always said he was only part of a team.
No. The Nobel Prize biography says that although the expression "the green revolution" made Borlaug's name known beyond scientific circles, he always emphasized that he himself was only part of a team. It describes how his success in Mexico made him a much sought-after adviser to countries whose food production was not keeping pace with their population growth, and how in the mid-1960s he introduced dwarf wheat into India and Pakistan, where production increased enormously.
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Borlaug is often called "the father of the Green Revolution", and is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation.
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A key leader was agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the "Father of the Green Revolution", who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.
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