"And I think that the fact it is making progress at the moment and yielding results already shows that that is the case.

VOA: standard.2009.07.22

But his big breakthrough came later, breeding high-yielding wheat varieties that more than tripled the harvest.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

In 1944,when many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster than crop production, Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13