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The Man Who Tried to Feed the World
2020 · Film · documentary · 52 min
Directed by Rob Rapley
The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of Norman Borlaug, a man who not only solved India's famine problem but would go on to lead a "Green Revolution" of worldwide agriculture programs estimated to have saved one billion lives. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work but spent the rest of his life watching his methods and achievements come under increasing fire.
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Fair point, but I wonder how much that event led to international support that mightve been well intentioned but also with potential issues, thinking more in the context of the Green Revolution (Norman borlaug documentary https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/man-who-tried-to-feed-the-world/ ) and critiques of it ( see 'The Globalization of Wheat' https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947349/ )