Monday, September 14, 2009

Environmentalist Norman Borlaug Dies

Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, died Saturday in Dallas of cancer complications at the age of 95.

The scientist is credited for advances in plant breeding that led to spectacular success in increasing food production in Latin America and Asia.

Borlaug breeded high-yielding crop varieties that helped to avert mass famines that were...

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