Congressional Gold Medal Awardee Dr. Norman Borlaug On Biotech
July 20, 2007| |
World Food Prize Founder and 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, America’s highest civilian honor by US President George W. Bush and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi last July 17, 2007.
In his speech, Borlaug stressed the importance and benefits of the advances in biotechnology over the last decade. He also encouraged new initiatives in biotechnology to focus on biofuels; on crops and traits of greatest interest to the world’s poor, such as beans, peanuts, tropical roots, tubers like cassava and yams, and bananas; and on research to enhance the nutritional content of food crops for essential minerals and vitamins.
Borlaug stressed the importance of public-private partnerships to improve access to biotech seeds by smallholder farmers, and to share research and development costs for “pro-poor” biotechnology.
For details see press release at: http://online.wsj.com/public/search/page/3_0466.html?KEYWORDS=Borlaug.
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