CGIAR is the world’s largest agricultural research group: In short, it helps create better plants and better animal genetics. It was at a CGIAR lab in Mexico that Norman Borlaug—you may remember him from chapter 6—did his groundbreaking work on wheat, sparking the Green Revolution. Other ...
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Norman Borlaug, needless to say, was a researcher for the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Green Revolution, for whatever increase in yields it brought about, also created markets for the oiligarchs’ own interest in the petrochemical fertilizer industry and gave rise to the“ABCD” seed cartelof...
It's kind of interesting that Norman Borlaug's research, at least initially, was funded by the Rockefellers. You know, the ones who had Standard Oil. And the green revolution crops require a lot of petroleum-derived inputs. You know, just sayin' it's an interesting connection. I know ...