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December 27, 1991

Air Date: December 27, 1991

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Grain Stocks Down / Steve Curwood

Steve reports on the decline of world grain supplies, which have quietly fallen to their lowest level in two decades. Most observers agree on the cause — recent bad harvests in the US and the former USSR — but they disagree over whether this is a short or long term problem. (03:42)

The Green Revolution Plus Thirty / Bruce Gellerman

Reporter Bruce Gellerman of member station WBUR in Boston visits the Mexican wheat fields of Norman Borlaug, known as "the Father of the Green Revolution." Borlaug's revolutionary approach to plant breeding and high-intensity agriculture helped to feed the world as the population doubled over the past 30 years, and won him the Nobel Peace Prize. Now semi-retired, Borlaug reflects on his accomplishments and on the challenge of squeezing still more food out of the earth as its population doubles again. (17:38)

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