Who is Norman Borlaug? He is a man who is responsible for preventing a famine in Mexico, for one thing, and his work went on to contributing to saving millions of lives.
Born in 1914, Norman Ernest Borlaug is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureat, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Read an article about his accomplishments that will give you great hope, and if you want to know more, look for more details in his entry in Wikipedia.
Read more about reasons for crop failure, such as monoculture, just one among many many reasons for agricultural distress. Watch a FRONTLINE show on India’s desperate farmers, trapped in a vicious cycle of pesticides that don’t work, drought and debt.
We need more scientists like him. He sounds like a great guy. He won a Congressional Gold Medal, I wonder if that’s higher than a Congressional Medal of Honor. He even started his own award, too bad he can’t award it to himself, sounds like he deserves it.