Setting the grass roots on fire - Norman Borlaug & Africa's green revolution / directed and produced by Tony Freeth.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Freeth, Tony, author.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Filmakers library online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borlaug, Norman.

Africa.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (57 minutes)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2001.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

digital

data file

Summary:

Dr. Norman Borlaug, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, has spent his life battling against hunger and poverty in developing countries. With characteristic energy and a sense or urgency, he is setting the agenda for a "Green Revolution " in Sub-Saharan Africa as population increases overwhelm production. Borlaug grew up on a small farm in Iowa during the Depression years and trained as an agricultural scientist. He developed a lifelong determination to use science for the benefit of subsistence farmers. The film charts his struggle against third world poverty, using footage shot in Africa and Mexico over the last thirty years. In Mexico after World War II Borlaug designed a simple approach for intensifying traditional agriculture that had dramatic results. It saved India and Pakistan from a repetition of the dreadful famine of the 1960 s. Often embroiled in politics in his determination to put agriculture at the top of the agenda, he has also crossed swords with some environmentalists, who he felt had little understanding of life in developing countries. His faith as always been in small -scale farmers who are "setting the grassroots on fire."

Notes:

Previously published as DVD.

Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2011. (VAST - Academic video online). Available via World Wide Web.

African Studies Association, 2000

OCLC:

794307616

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.