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The man who fed the world : Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug and his battle to end world hunger : an authorized biography
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The man who fed the world : Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug and his battle to end world hunger : an authorized biography

Author: Leon F Hesser
Publisher: Dallas, Tex. : Durban House Pub. Co., 2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hesser, Leon F., 1925-
Man who fed the world.
Dallas, Texas : Durban House Publishing Company, Inc., 2006
(OCoLC)654384177
Named Person: Norman E Borlaug
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Leon F Hesser
ISBN: 1930754906 9781930754904
OCLC Number: 71361262
Description: xi, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Letter from Dr. Norman Borlaug --
Chapter 1. Growing Up on an Iowa Farm --
Chapter 2. Budding Scientist at the University of Minnesota --
Chapter 3. Rockefeller Foundation Offers Borlaug a Challenge --
Chapter 4. Borlaug Builds a Revolutionary Wheat Breeding Program --
Chapter 5. Rockefeller's Mexico Program Goes International --
Chapter 6. Famine is Averted in India --
Chapter 7. Father of the Green Revolution --
Chapter 8. Margaret Copes with Loneliness --
Chapter 9. Birth of a Global Network of Research and Training --
Chapter 10. Nobel Peace Prize --
Chapter 11. Launching the World Food Prize --
Chapter 12. Borlaug in China --
Chapter 13. Norman Borlaug and Jimmy Carter Join Hands for Africa --
Chapter 14. Feeding 10 Billion People --
Chapter 15. Distinguished Professor --
Chapter 16. Norman Borlaug's Legacy --
Chapter 17. Reflections of a Humble Hero of Hunger --
Appendix A. Norman Ernest Borlaug's Ancestral Heritage --
Appendix B. List of Norman E. Borlaug's Awards.
Other Titles: Norman Borlaug and his battle to end world hunger
Responsibility: by Leon Hesser ; foreword by Jimmy Carter.
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