Published Aug 21, 2020
The Man Who Fed the World
Explore the extraordinary legacy of Norman Borlaug, whose revolutionary agricultural innovations, including the development of semi-dwarf wheat during the Green Revolution, dramatically transformed global food security and saved over a billion lives.
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