they did not become self-sufficient. planting cereal grains reduced the diversity of plant and gene stocks, required inputs of western fertilizers and seed, and also destroyed soil fertility. how many farmers in india have committed suicide due to this?

mexico on the other hand has lost innumerable varieties of corn, to have them replaced with GMO stock by the likes of monsanto, which will sue them and take their land if they dare try and save seed from what they grow! again, this is far from independence.
i'd like to see a percentage comparison of hungry people in the world before the green revolution, and today. perhaps a scale over the last few decades.

reliance on foreign non-native...

they did not become self-sufficient. planting cereal grains reduced the diversity of plant and gene stocks, required inputs of western fertilizers and seed, and also destroyed soil fertility. how many farmers in india have committed suicide due to this?

mexico on the other hand has lost innumerable varieties of corn, to have them replaced with GMO stock by the likes of monsanto, which will sue them and take their land if they dare try and save seed from what they grow! again, this is far from independence.
i'd like to see a percentage comparison of hungry people in the world before the green revolution, and today. perhaps a scale over the last few decades.

reliance on foreign non-native GMO seed, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, annually (i.e., year after year), i repeat, does not self-sufficient make. nor do the practices required for the growing of these crops make for ecological and non-destructive farming methods, monocultures replacing polycultures will never "give the world peace."

From the LA Times:

In 1960, before his techniques were widely adopted, the world produced 692 million tons of grain for 2.2 billion people. By 1992, largely as a result of Borlaug's pioneering techniques, it was producing 1.9 billion tons for 5.6 billion people -- using only 1% more land. India and Pakistan are now agriculturally self-sufficient as a result of his intervention.

His efforts did not go unrecognized: Borlaug became one of only five people in history to score the trifecta of humanitarian achievement, winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Med...

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From the LA Times:

In 1960, before his techniques were widely adopted, the world produced 692 million tons of grain for 2.2 billion people. By 1992, largely as a result of Borlaug's pioneering techniques, it was producing 1.9 billion tons for 5.6 billion people -- using only 1% more land. India and Pakistan are now agriculturally self-sufficient as a result of his intervention.

His efforts did not go unrecognized: Borlaug became one of only five people in history to score the trifecta of humanitarian achievement, winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal -- placing him in the company of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela and Elie Wiesel.

On Borlaug's 90th birthday, former President Carter said that he "has been demonstrating practical ways to give people of the entire world a higher quality of life. . . . He is a true humanitarian."

Former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern added that Borlaug's "scientific leadership not only saved people from starvation, but the high-yield seeds he bred saved millions of square miles of wildlife from being plowed down. He is one of the great men of our age."