Norman Borlaug 'helped provide bread for a hungry world'

Discover how Norman E. Borlaug aimed to help these people by revolutionizing agriculture and saving countless lives.

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I don’t know what we can do to help these people, but we’ve got to do something.

Norman E. Borlaug, the plant scientist who did more than anyone else in the 20th century to teach the world to feed itself and whose work was credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday night. (The New York Times)

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