Before those grim visions could come to pass, the green revolution transformed global agriculture, especially wheat and rice. Through selective breeding, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist ...

The Green Revolution was so successful that dire predictions ... genetically engineered crops with climate-friendly features—such as the ability to thrive in droughts or floods, generate their ...

The European green revolution designed to slow down climate change globally is threatening the way of life of the Sámi people, one of the continent’s last-remaining indigenous groups.

He was referred to as the father of Green Revolution in India, for his leadership and role in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice in the country.

Photo by Trina Kleist, UC Davis. Dwarfing genes in cereal crops made the Green Revolution of the 1960s possible, but they have limitations. Scientists at UC Davis have discovered a gene that can ...

Swaminathan is unique in doing all these roles superbly and with elan." The broad story of the Green Revolution is well known in India. Swaminathan played a central role in the transition of our ...

But money doesn’t necessarily produce results. A case study, according to critics, is the push for a “green revolution” in Africa, which has spent $1 billion to date, much of it from the ...