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Tag Archives: Norman Borlaug

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World Food Prize Dialogue Focuses on Next Generation

With World Food Day on the horizon, hundreds of people gathered in Des Moines, Iowa for the World Food Prize Symposium. Started by Nobel Laureate, Norman Borlaug in 1986, the World Food Prize recognizes individuals for their efforts to increase food production globally through innovation in agriculture. The 2011 symposium, called the “Borlaug Dialogue,” placed focus on “The Next Generation: Confronting the Hunger Challenges of Tomorrow.”

Monsanto chairman, president and CEO Hugh Grant was among the hundreds of leaders consisting of heads of state, farmers, researchers, international agricultural leaders and others participating in the event.

Among other things, Hugh … Full Article »

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Originally published
October 15, 2011 by Janice Person

Norman Borlaug

Remembering Norman Borlaug

By Theodore Crosbie, Ph.D.

Vice President, Global Plant Breeding

I first met Norman Borlaug as a graduate student in Plant Breeding at Iowa State University. My classmates and I dutifully filed into the agronomy auditorium to hear another Thursday seminar that afternoon in 1973.

Our speaker was viewed as a feisty renegade. At the time, some faculty expressed disbelief that Norm Borlaug merited a Nobel Prize.

He hadn’t published a thing in a journal that mattered. Peasants knew of his work instead of the National Academy of Science. It was widely believed that he had been relegated to work in … Full Article »

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Originally published
September 13, 2009 by Monsantoco