Today, bloggers are encouraged to write about an issue that relates to human rights. Since all people have the right to a decent meal, and freedom from an empty stomach, I want to write a bit about Noramn Borlaug. He has been called “the Father of the Green Revolution.”
Norman Borlaug won a Nobel Prize for his efforts directed at development of high-yielding crops. Those crops helped to reduce the number of starving children and adults in India and Pakistan. Before Borlaug worked on the development of high-yielding crops, he helped the Marines stranded on Guadalcanal.
The military sought to send those Marines supplies at night. They would drop the supplies in the ocean, just off the coast. Unfortunately, the glue on the boxes did not hold-up in the saltwater.
Borlaug, working at Dupont laboratories, managed to invent a new type of glue–one that could withstand salt water. Thanks to that glue, Marines on Guadalcanal got their inteneded supplies.
After that. Borlaug began helping with a problem in Mexico. Tomorrow I will write more about that problem, and also asbout how any work in Mexico has ties to Marine history.
