Linking Research to Crop Production

In 1941, The Rockefeller Foundation sent a team of three American agricultural scientists to Mexico to survey the pros­ pects for increasing grain production there. The nature of the program that was subsequently established by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations has had a large influence upon the evolu­ tion of agricultural research for the developing countries, and the project grew into what is now called the Green Revolution. The Green Revolution has been vastly successful because there...