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Is Monsanto the answer or the problem?
Mexico :: NY :: USA | 4 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
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Tacoma :: WA :: USA | 9 days ago
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Tags: Tacoma, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Third World Academy of Sciences, University of Minnesota, World Food Prize, Des Moines Iowa, American Council on Science and Health, Mexican Academy of Sciences, Norman Borlaug, Puyallup, Fort Nisqually, Point Defiance Park, Pierce County Washington, North Tacoma Washington, Tacoma Washington
In Des Moines, Gates chides critics, defends biotech crops
Des Moines :: IA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility In what was billed as his first major speech on agriculture, Gates chided critics who he said are “instantly hostile to any emphasis on productivity” and ignore the challenges to food production posed by climate change. “They act as if there is no emergency,...
Tags: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates Foundation, billed gates, Mr Gates, Des Moines, Iowa, Norman Borlaug, help small
Gates: Borlaug built armies of agriculture workers
College Station :: TX :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Colleagues and friends of Norman Borlaug remembered the Nobel Peace Prize winner on Tuesday as a humanitarian who "built armies of agricultural workers" to combat famine in the world's developing countries. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who was president...
Tags: Norman Borlaug, nobel peace, peace prize, Texas A&M University
U to hold memorial for Nobel winner Borlaug
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The University of Minnesota will hold a public memorial service for the late scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug on Thursday, Oct. 8 in McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis. Borlaug developed a type of wheat that helped feed the world,...
Tags: Norman Borlaug
So Much Food. So Much Hunger.
Mexico City :: Mexico | 2 months ago
Credibility This past week the world celebrated the life and achievements of Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born plant scientist who created high-yielding wheat varieties to stave off famine. Dr. Borlaug, who died at age 95 on Sept. 12, led the so-called Green Revolution...
Tags: Norman Borlaug, Mexico, Mexico City
A&M memorial for Nobel winner Borlaug set for Oct. 6
College Station :: TX :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack are to eulogize Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug at his memorial next month. Texas A&M University spokeswoman Kathleen Phillips says Gates and Vilsack will be joined by longtime Borlaug...
Tags: Norman Borlaug, Tom Vilsack, Texas A&M University, College Station
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
Against the grain on Norman Borlaug
Johnston :: RI :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility But despite the passionate humanitarian zeal that drove much of his work, he certainly had his critics. The criticism was not so much aimed at the man himself, but for the biotech legacy he played such a major role in creating. After all, this was the...
Tags: Norman Borlaug, Johnston
'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
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