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Is Monsanto the answer or the problem?
Mexico :: NY :: USA | 5 days ago
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Borlaug, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work increasing food production in starving areas of the globe, welcomed Fraley to his Dallas home, where the two men sipped coffee and tea and discussed a subject dear to their hearts: the future...
Tags: Africa Monsanto, Monsanto Co, Rob Fraley, biotech crop, Norman Borlaug, green revolution, food production, tolerant corn, research centers, executive director, Mexico, Greater St. Louis, Monsanto, Herbicides, Roundup, Genetically modified food, Droughts, Environmental issues, Genetic engineering, Business Finance, Environment
Feeding the world
London :: United Kingdom | 9 days ago
Credibility Food Wars Walden Bello (Verso, 2009) Food Rebellions! Crisis and the hunger for justice Raj Patel and Eric Holt-Giménez (Pambazuka Press, 2009) According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, the number of malnourished people exceeded one billion...
Tags: climate change, green revolution, food crisis, South, Africa, United Kingdom, London, Humanitarian aid, Date of birth missing, Eric Holt Gimￃﾩnez, Agroecology, Organic farming, Food politics, Agronomy, Agriculture, Environment
World's great food multiplier
Mexico City :: Mexico | 2 months ago
Credibility Borlaug, the father of the ''Green Revolution'', who is widely credited with saving more than 1 billion lives by breeding wheat, rice and other crops that brought agricultural self-sufficiency to developing countries around the world, has died of cancer...
Tags: Norman Borlaug, green revolution, Mexico, Mexico City
Norman Borlaug, RIP
Dallas :: TX :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Norman Borlaug, the American agronomist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, died on Saturday aged 95. Borlaug managed to feed the world in a way Bob Geldof, Bono and friends could only dream about, yet he was far from being a household name in the Western world....
Tags: Dr. Norman Borlaug, Dr Borlaug, Dr. Borlaug, Julie Borlaug, green revolution, nobel peace, Texas, Iowan, peace prize, prize winner, Dallas
'Green Revolution' Founder Borlaug Dead at 95
Norman Borlaug, who is credited with starting the "green revolution" and saving 1 billion lives, died today in Dallas from complications of cancer, the Dallas Morning News reports. He was 95. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for agricultural...
Tags: Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, Dead, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Award, Dallas, Texas, Starvation, Poor, Hunger
Norman Borlaugh, the father of the
I must confess that today is the first time I heard the name Norman Borlaugh. According to close friend Dr. Ed Runge that's unfortunately true for a lot of other people as well. The "green revolution" was a transformation in agricultural practices between...
Tags: Norman Burlough, green revolution
Iranian Band Shams Ensemble Plays US Shows to Promote Freedom
Shams Ensemble, a musical troupe that features music drawn from Persia's distant past and has become a rallying point of overseas support for the Green Revolution in Iran, begins a three-concert tour in the US starting Sept. 27 in San Francisco. Their...
Tags: shams ensemble, iran, iranian revolution, green revolution, iran revolution, freedom, justice, san francisco, california, music, hope, passion, teresa rodriguez williamson, evan karp, change, rumi, persian, brazilian, kurdish, huffington post, tango diva, davies symphony
The Saga of Indianism...
After a prolonged struggle India got freedom 62 years ago and since then our stupendous growth has made everyone wonder. Our biggest achievement- maintaining a reasonably fair democracy with other things like presence of India across the globe, landing...
Tags: chandyayaan, democracy, diversity, floods, green revolution, IIT, indianabroad, ISRO, NIT, racial discrimination
AGRICULTURE: Biotechnology: Africa Must Not Be Left Behind
Kampala :: Uganda | 4 months ago
Credibility Africa must embrace agricultural biotechnology or risk being excluded from a major technological revolution that has had increased food production in the Europe, North America and Asia. Biosciences Initiative says that "Africa missed the Green Revolution,...
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Gujarat to lead 2nd green revolution: Narendra Modi
Gāndhīnagar :: India | 5 months ago
Credibility Modi said that many people had mocked him in 2001-02 when he had expressed resolve that Gujarat would lead the second green revolution in the country. He also called for more research in agriculture sector for increasing farm produce. "However, continuous...
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