Ray Offenheiser discusses the humble plant breeder’s audacious plan to feed the world and the fallout he didn’t forsee. Borlaug smiling in wheat field. Image, 1960s. International Maize and Wheat ...

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning researcher who developed a high-yielding variety of disease resistant wheat and improved varieties of other crop plants that fed legions of starving people died this ...

Norman Borlaug, who was born on a farm in Iowa 110 years ago this week, is reckoned to have saved more lives than any man in human history — certainly hundreds of millions, perhaps even a billion.