After nearly a century of dedicating his life to finding ways to “provide bread for a hungry world”, the American plant pathologist and agricultural scientist, Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution that tried combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, dies of cancer on Saturday at the age of 95 at his home in Dallas, yet we know that his legacy will live on holding his calling and his life's work!!!

Born in 1914, to a Norwegian immigrant family, Norman Ernest Borlaug showed interest in studying agriculture even since early childhood; this led him eventually to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for starting the "Green Revolution" that aimed to avert world famine, increase crop varieties and increase food production.

His contributions also brought him the highest civilian honors in the United States, as well as the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007. Since 1984, he had been a distinguished professor of international agriculture at Texas A&M University.

The Green Revolution was a transformation in agriculture that allows food production in developing countries to increase in order to meet the needs of a fast growing worldwide population; thereby, avoiding hunger and starvation. Norman Borlaug began at the end of World War II after the Great Gepression, using innovative breeding techniques to create resistant varieties of wheat, which produced more grain than the traditional strains.

Later he took these improved strains of rice and corn to Asia. Thanks to this revolution, world food production more than doubled between 1960 and 1990, and this might have saved more than 1 billion lives. His contributions made him one of the great Americans of modern times, especially in countries like India, Mexico and Pakistan that benefited the most ,as grain yields more than quadrupled.

He did not settle with improving crop varieties, but he also fought to determine governments to use biotechnology to fight hunger, ease policies to make markets more accessible and work on projects that teach new farming methods resistant to drought in Africa. When accepting the Nobel Price he said, “an adequate supply of food is the first component of social justice; otherwise there will be no peace"!!!