He not only showed humanity how to get more food from the Earth, he proved that farming has the power to lift up the lives of the poor."

VOA: special.2009.11.10

He says the agencies are supplying water, distributing farming supplies, setting up cooperatives and implementing food-for-work projects.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

His advocacy of intensive, high-yield agriculture came under criticism from environmentalists in recent years, but Borlaug and those who followed his lead argued that older methods of sustainable farming could not produce enough food to prevent hunger in poorer regions of the world.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13