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The '''Green Revolution''' was a spread of technology by [[Norman Borlaug]], who earned the [[List of Nobel Peace Prize winners|Nobel Peace Prize]] in [[1970]]. He is said to have saved over a billion people from [[Starvation|starving to death]], from the [[1930s]] to the [[1960s]].<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=frNfVx-KZOcC&pg=PA1|title = The Asian Green Revolution|last = Hazell|first = Peter B.R.|date = 2009-01-01|publisher = Intl Food Policy Res Inst|language = en}}</ref>
The [[Rockefeller Foundation]] and [[Ford Foundation]] helped to transfer and adapt these scientific advances to the conditions in developing countries.The first investments were in research on [[rice]] and [[wheat]], two of the most important food crops for developing countries.The breeding of improved plant varieties, combined with the expanded use of [[fertilizer]]s and [[pesticide]]s, and irrigation, led to big yield increases in Asia and Latin America, beginning in the late 1960s. The term “Green Revolution” was used to describe this large growth in agriculture.<ref>[http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/ib/ib11.pdf Green Revolution: Curse or Blessing?]</ref>▼
It was done by the creation of different types of cereal grains which grew more food than average. Also, there was more use of modern systems for [[Irrigation|watering crops]]. Food management was made more modern. The spread of hybridized seeds, man-made [[Fertilizer|fertilizers]], and [[Pesticide|pesticides]] to [[Farmer|farmers]] all helped.
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