The Man Who Fed the World: Norman Borlaug's Relentless War Against Hunger

By Michael Webster

He was called the "Father of the Green Revolution." His work was credited with saving over a billion lives. But who was the man behind the miracle?

In the mid-20th century, the world was teetering on the brink of a global catastrophe. Malthusian predictions of mass starvation haunted every government and scientist. Famine was not a distant threat, but a stark, present reality, especially in the developing world. The future seemed destined for hunger, conflict, and despair.

Into this world stepped Norman Borlaug, a relentless, unconventional scientist from the American Midwest. He was not a politician, a general, or a world leader. He was a plant pathologist with an unshakeable conviction that science could triumph over starvation. Ignoring the scepticism of his peers and the bureaucracy of international aid, he went to the fields of Mexico and began to work.

This is the story of his decades-long battle against famine. It is the story of a man who crossed borders and cultures, slept in the dirt with farmers, and toiled under the sun to develop new strains of high-yield, disease-resistant wheat. It is a story of fighting political inertia, winning over stubborn sceptics, and sparking a global agricultural revolution that fundamentally altered the course of human history.

This book will take you beyond the Nobel Peace Prize and the headlines. It reveals the personal struggles, the political battles, and the profound determination that drove a single man to defy fate.

Discover how one man, armed with a vision and a grain of wheat, helped to feed the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FNLPLZNR
• ISBN13: 9798262013371
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"