Trained as a plant pathologist, Borlaug joined the Rockefeller Institute–funded Cooperative Wheat Research and Production Program in Mexico (a precursor to CIMMYT, the International Maize and Wheat ...

It was 56 acres,” says Tom Spindler, with the Norman Borlaug Heritage Foundation. Spindler is speaking of young Norman Borlaug. Next to the ... Borlaug helped develop wheat varieties in Mexico ...

In 1970 Norman E ... In 1944, Dr. Borlaug participated in the Rockefeller Foundation's pioneering technical assistance program in Mexico, where he was a research scientist in charge of wheat ...

People are pretty good problem solvers and Norman Borlaug — along with others — created what’s known as the Green Revolution. Borlaug broke the rules for growing wheat as part of experiments ...

Just a few years earlier, an Iowan had brought his miracle wheat from Mexico to confront ... hunger and paving the way for ...

An American agricultural scientist from Iowa, Norman Borlaug bred climate agnostic wheat strains that resisted disease. He was dubbed the “Father of the Green Revolution” and in 1970 was ...