next, in 1970, the american agricultural scientist norman borlaug was awarded the nobel peace prize forps. at the time, famine and malnutrition were claiming millions of lives across the world. but borlaug's green revolution enable countries like india to become self—sufficient. witness history spoke to professor ronnie coffman, a student and friend of norman borlaug. if the field is uniform, you get a general picture of what it is likely to yield. the man who fed the world. norman borlaug, praised for saving more lives than anyone in human history. we were in the field, hard at work, 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 stud

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