Episode 719 - Norman Borlaug’s Green Revolution addthis
Norman Borlaug’s Green Revolution
Norman Borlaug grew up on a small Iowa farm. The lessons he learned would one day help him develop agricultural practices that are still changing the way the world is fed. Today, he’s credited with saving more than a billion lives.

Jason Shoultz meets with the Nobel laureate at an event he founded: the annual World Food Prize. There, we learn more about the man whose efforts prompted a “Green Revolution” around the globe.

 

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