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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 85. Chapters: Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Vandana Shiva, Norman Borlaug, Muhammad Yunus, M. S. Swaminathan, Abid Qaiyum Suleri, Akhtar Hameed Khan, Jeffrey Sachs, Lester R. Brown, E. F. Schumacher, Paulo Freire, Moses Coady, Sulak Sivaraksa, Rogelio Frigerio, Tahrunessa Abdullah, Antonia Darder, Ha-Joon Chang, Ester Boserup, George Counts, Amy B. Smith, John Hatch, Ray Bush, William Easterly, David Korten, Paul Collier, Stephen C. Smith, Virginia Abernethy, Carolyn Baylies, Piers Blaikie, Wolfgang Sachs, David Lewis, Amy Chua, Michael Edwards, Ross Levine, Manfred Max Neef, Walden Bello, Peter Worsley, Finn Tarp, Denis Goulet, Arturo Escobar, Christopher Murray, Stefan Dercon, Vikram Akula, Michael M. Cernea, Peter Ady, Terry McGee, Morris Szeftel, Dean Jamison, Robert Wade, Richard Jolly, Alan Winters, Duncan Green, Anthony Shorrocks, Colin Leys, Robert Chambers, Yamini Aiyar, James Putzel, Katrina Brown, Kevin Watkins, Teodor Shanin, Helen O'Neill, Jeni Klugman, Mansoob Murshed, Diane Elson, Hamza Alavi. Excerpt: Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 - September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution." Borlaug was one of only six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties. 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. As a resul...
