norman borlaug, praised for saving more lives than anyone in human history. and we looked up and saw a car coming down through the field on the other side of a major irrigation canal, and doctor borlaug said, "whoa, that looks like margaret." margaret was his wife. and she gets out, she says, "norman, you won the nobel prize!" laughter he didn't really believe it. he comes back and we go back to work. i first met him as my professor. i was the first phd student, and while i was working for him, he won the nobel prize. so then he was too busy to take students so i was the last student also. obviously i am personally honoured beyond all dreams by this election, but the obligations imposed by the honours are far greater than the honour itself. he grew up on a farm in iowa, coming of age during the great depression. he saw a lot of bread lines, a lot of people out of work. he saw a lot of poverty. i think that set him on his career to do something that would benefit society. he started his work in mexico in the 19605, developing high—yielding disease—resistant wh

coming up, the man who fed the world as crop pioneer norman borlaug was called.ow saddam hussein ordered the destruction of iraq's great marshes. and we hear about the fight to escape a neighbourhood built on 20,000 tons of toxic waste. but we start here in the uk, which was one of the first countries in europe to ban lead from petrol in cars. the move followed a successful campaign showing the lead was poisoning children and leaving them permanently brain—damaged. witness history spoke to doctor robin russell—jones from the campaign for lead—free air. chanting. lead—free petrol now! i am protesting against this company because the lead in the petrol is brain damaging my child. excuse me, can i give you one of these to read, please? - it's about lead in petrol... to these leeds parents who've recentlyjoined the anti—lead campaign, it seems common sense that 10,000 tons of lead must find its way to people one way or another. the sort of effects that occur in children who have this sort of level of exposure manifest themselves as behavioural disorders. these childr

in norman borlaug won the nobel 1970, peace prize for sparking the green revolution. his efforts transformed global food systems to be abundant, affordable and high in caloric density. these successful efforts dramatically reduced hunger. today we face a growing crisis , of diet-related chronic disease, which costs the u.s. economy over $1 trillion annually and affects nearly half of all adults. we need to build upon borlaug's legacy in a revolutionary new way by expanding our mission from simply using food to eliminate hunger and undernutrition to using food to become healthier. this can only be achieved by innovating throughout the entire agriculture food supply chain and by advancing rigorous science, not merely focusing on what seems what some deemed to be healthy foods. with that said, urbanization, historic under investment in agriculture research, gaps in knowledge, competing agendas and a deficit and public trust all contribute to the growing disconnect between people and the food they eat. to put it bluntly, that disconnect threatens agriculture, the food sup