Feeding the world.

Today's World Street Journal contains an editorial on the passing of Norman Borlaug. Borlaug won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for figuring out how to increase crop sizes of food staples such as wheat and rice.

While the Nobel Committee noted that he helped provide "bread for a hungry world," the Journal goes on to say,

The committee might have added that more than any other single person Borlaug showed that nature is no match for human ingenuity in setting the real limits to growth.

Giving a country such as India the ability to feed its own exploding population was no simple feat, but Borlaug did it "by developing genetically unique strains of "semidwarf" wheat, and later rice, that raised food yields as much as sixfold."

Yet, he had his critics. Go figure.

Read the full article, Norman Borlaug- The man who fed the world.

Well, that's what I have to say.
Stephen M. Flatow