A32-Uncaster Farming, Saturday, October 19,1985
ITHACA, NY - Famine in
Africa can be eliminated through a
coordinated scientific, political,
and economic effort, according to
the man who is credited as the
father of the Green Revolution."
Nobel Laureate Norman E.
Borlaug, an Andrew Dickson White
Professor-at-Large at Cornell
University, says the African
famine is far from hopeless,
because similar food shortages in
Mexico, Pakistan, and India were
solved when those countries
adopted sound farming methods
and instituted economic reforms
that allowed the farmers to suc
ceed.
Borlaug says that Ethiopia and
other countries someday could be
growing enough food to feed their
people if they follow the examples
of countries such as Mexico.
Borlaug, 71, won the Nobel Prize
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Expert says famine can be halted in Africa
for Peace in 1970 for his work on
improving agricultural output in
Mexico, India, and Pakistan. His
successes in India and Pakistan
were called the ‘Green
Revolution" by the popular press.
Borlaug believes that his “Green
Revolution" can succeed in
starving African nations, if these
countries are willing to mount a
concerted effort.
The world renowned scientist
made the point in a public lecture
on ' Agricultural Research and the
African Food Crisis” during his
recent visit to Cornell.
When I got to Mexico in 1944, 1
witnessed a situation not unlike
what is facing Africa today,”
Borlaug told his audience.
Borlaug first traveled to Mexico
as a plant scientist working for the
cooperative Mexican agricultural
program, which was a joint effort
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Borlaug said.
You can have all the technology
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the technology,” Borlaug em
phasized.
In many developing nations,
Borlaug said, the economic
climate is working against far
mers. For example, farmers in
many developing nations are
expected to increase their crop
yields, yet they are being paid
about half the going world market
rate for their grains.
That situation exists because
governments in those countries
suppress agricultural prices to
appease the minority of their
people who live in urban areas,
Borlaug said.
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boosting their agricultural
production, famines will worsen,
as the populations exceed the food
production capacity,” he
predicted.
Currently affiliated with the
International Maize and Wheat
Improvement Center in Mexico,
Borlaug is a consultant for the
Rockefeller Foundation, in ad
dition to his Cornell professorship.
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