LEADERSHIP AND LEGACY
"[BORLAUG\ ...WAS A LEADER WHO LED BY EXAMPLE..."
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Norman Borlaug's leadership is responsible for the Green Revolution. His legacy is the billion lives saved and the wheat that can feed the world's growing population.
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Family and colleagues explain Borlaug's enormous legacy on our planet. (Borlaug Institution, 2009)
"HE WAS ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED PUBLIC FIGURES IN THE PAST CENTURY AND INFLUENCED MORE PEOPLE THAN ANYONE ELSE IN TERMS OF IMPROVING NUTRITION AND LIVELIHOODS . . . . HIS SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIS DEDICATION TO HELPING HIS FELLOW HUMANS WILL INSPIRE FUTURE GENERATIONS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENTISTS."
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"BORLAUG'S UNIQUE COMBINATION OF TECHNICAL INNOVATION, IDEALISM, ENERGY, AND IMPATIENCE WITH BUREAUCRATIC INEFFICIENCY TOOK ENTIRE COUNTRIES FROM STARVATION TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN THE SPACE OF A FEW YEARS."
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Monsanto Company, which conducts work that follows Borlaug's footsteps, has created a program to continue Borlaug's legacy.