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The family eventually moved to the small Norwegian-American community of Saude, near Cresco, Iowa. Ole Olson Dybevig and Solveig Thomasdatter Rinde, of Feios, a small village in Vik kommune, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, emigrated to Dane County, Wisconsin, in 1854. Norman Borlaug wrestling at the University of Minnesotaīorlaug was the great-grandchild of Norwegian immigrants to the United States.

Later in his life, he helped apply these methods of increasing food production in Asia and Africa. According to Jan Douglas, executive assistant to the president of the World Food Prize Foundation, the source of this number is Gregg Easterbrook's 1997 article "Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity." The article states that the "form of agriculture that Borlaug preaches may have prevented a billion deaths." He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply. īorlaug was often called "the father of the Green Revolution", and is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation.

Between 19, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations. As a result, Mexico became a net exporter of wheat by 1963. During the mid-20th century, Borlaug led the introduction of these high-yielding varieties combined with modern agricultural production techniques to Mexico, Pakistan, and India. He took up an agricultural research position with CIMMYT in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high- yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties. in forestry in 1937 and PhD in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.īorlaug received his B.S. Norman Ernest Borlaug ( / ˈ b ɔːr l ɔː ɡ/ March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Variation and Variability in Fusarium lini.