Has it really been proven that the Green Revolution decreased hunger?

Reblogged from Jahi Chappell’s blog — some critical thoughts here worth thinking about!

Beginning to End Hunger

An actual piece that I actually wrote (not just reblogged) is up at IATP’s Think Forward blog: Science means having to say “I’m Sorry”:

I’m sorry, but saying that the Green Revolution saved millions of lives is unscientific.

Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, the president of the World Food Prize Foundation, recently made this widely repeated, but unscientific, claim in responding to columnist Rekha Basu. Basu recently criticized the foundation for awarding this year’s World Food Prize to three scientists who helped invent crop genetic modification. (Two of who are current or former vice presidents at Monsanto and Syngenta.) Quinn notes that the founder of the World Food Prize, famed Green Revolution researcher Norman Borlaug, specifically encouraged the foundation to consider these three scientists before his death. In his piece, Quinn admonishes Basu that “Dr. Borlaug would tell us it is our responsibility to use the power of science” to help…

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