Borlaug

Borlaug is so far the only person to have won a Nobel Peace Prize for fighting hunger.

He said the most fitting honor for Norman Borlaug is to lead a second Green Revolution that feeds the world.

Shortly before his death this year, aged 95, Borlaug reportedly expressed regret that he would not live to see the "gene revolution" .

Norman Borlaug, known as the father of the Green Revolution, was a Rockefeller Foundation scientist.

Without Borlaug's rust-resisting wheat, millions more people might have been malnourished.

Norman Borlaug is often called "the man who saves a billion lives " and "the Father of the 'Green Revolution'" .

The money is welcome, because crop science of the sort Mr Borlaug made famous has fallen out of fashion in recent decades.

Born in Iowa, Borlaug began the work that led to his Nobel in Mexico at the end of the second world war.

Known as the father of the Green Revolution, Borlaug devoted his life to increasing agriculture productivity.

AS DAWN broke over northern Mexico, Norman Borlaug wriggled from his sleeping bag.

If Mr Borlaug was the father of the revolution, political necessity was its mother.

She says Norman Borlaug still believes it is our responsibility as human beings to feed one another.

In the 1940s, Norman Borlaug and a team developed highly productive and disease-resistant wheat for farmers in Mexico.

That was Bill Gates talking to agricultural scientists gathered recently to honour the late Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution.

Norman Borlaug was born ninety-four years ago on a farm in the American state of Iowa.

That is not just money, but a trade-off of lower yields for more resistance (ie, the opposite of what Borlaug achieved).

Norman Borlaug persuaded farmers to use more fertilizers and pesticide chemicals and to water their crops with irrigation systems.

Norman Borlaug was given the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in nineteen seventy.

Food availability: As Norman Borlaug led the Green Revolution in the mid-20th century, he was aware of the rising organic tide back home.

Borlaug's methods often raised yields while reducing acreage, and it seemed for years he'd proven the organic movement wrong.

The UN says global farm yields must rise 77pc, which means redoubling Norman Borlaug's "green revolution" .

Norman Borlaug established the World Food Prize in nineteen eighty-six.

As for Norman Borlaug . . . who the heck is Norman Borlaug?

Rust, Borlaug once said, "never sleeps. "

That is notjust money, but a trade-off of lower yields for more resistance (ie, theopposite of what Borlaug achieved).

The prize represents a dream of Dr. Norman Borlaug.

Borlaug used a mighty rust-resisting gene that lasted 40 years.

Norman Borlaug, the great American agronomist who died last year, conducted his original research into wheat rust.