Faculty Fellow Ray Offenheiser (global affairs) was interviewed by American Experience in an article titled, “The Green Revolution: Norman Borlaug and the Race to Fight Global Hunger.” In the interview, Offenheiser discusses the world-changing impact of Norman Borlaug, the man who initiated the Green Revolution.
Offenheiser touches on the many criticisms of Borlaug’s work but also notes that “Borlaug was very committed in his early years to working with very poor farmers in Mexico and really trying to create a crop and a product that would improve their livelihoods and reduce malnutrition and generate disposable income for those families.”