Word: borlaugã
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...Borlaug??s achievement has kept worldwide food production ahead of population growth and has preserved billions of acres of land in the developing world that otherwise would have become farmland...
...theory at the time was that bigger wheat meant bigger yield,” Becker says. But Borlaug??s dwarf wheat used its energy to produce edible grain and not the inedible stalk, thus significantly increasing the yield of the crop...
...midst of war and starvation in the late 1960s, the nations adopted Borlaug??s dwarf wheat and were able to avert both...
...Borlaug??s 90th birthday party earlier this year, Colin Powell led the singing of “Happy Birthday” in his honor. But, according to Quinn, when Peter Jennings came to interview Borlaug, he had already left for Africa...
...Japanese industrialist called him 16 years ago when he was thinking of retiring [and] asked why [progress in combatting hunger hadn’t been made] in Africa,” says Borlaug??s nephew, Ted Behrens, who founded the Heritage Foundation...
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