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Malcolm Elliott is the Founding Director of The Norman Borlaug Institute for Global Food Security. He sees the role of the Institute as facilitating the delivery of food security and creation of wealth by applying cutting-edge plant science techniques in crop improvement programmes that will enable the sustainable enhancement of global agricultural production. A working partnership of Rothamsted Research and The University of Nottingham re-established The Institute as the Norman Borlaug Institute for Global Food Security at Rothamsted in November, 2011.Professor Elliott graduated with First Class Honours in Plant Sciences from The University of Wales in 1963. His PhD in plant biochemistry in the laboratory of Professor H.E. Street at The University of Wales (1966) was followed by a period as a Fulbright Scholar and Research Staff Biologist at Yale University (1967-1969). He returned from the USA to take the post of Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry at The University of Leicester (1969-1971), then he became Professor and Head of The School of Life Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester (1971-1994). He was Chairman of The College of Deans at De Montfort University (1989-1993) then Founding Director of The Norman Borlaug Institute for Crop Improvement (1994 to date)and Editor in Chief of the BioMed Central open access journal Agriculture & Food Security (2011 to date. Professor Elliott is the author of several hundred research publications with emphasis on molecular biological approaches to cereal improvement and he has directed the Higher Degree programmes of more than fifty Graduate Students. He was honoured by the award of the Charles University Medal in 1992, the Gregor Mendel Gold Medal for Biological Sciences Research of Exceptional Merit in 1993, the Jan Evangelista Purkyne Medal in 1994 and the DSc (Honoris Causa) of the Bulgarian Academy of Agricultural Science in 2006.
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-Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution: the Next Hundred Years |
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Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug (1914–2009) initiated the Green Revolution in agriculture which increased agricultural production so successfully as to enable some one billion people, who would otherwise have died from starvation, to thrive. Nevertheless, he warned, in his Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (December the 11th, 1970) that: "The green revolution has won a temporary success in man’s war against hunger and deprivation; it has given man a breathing space. If fully implemented, the revolution can provide sufficient food for sustenance during the next three decades. But the frightening power of human reproduction must also be curbed; otherwise
the success of the green revolution will be ephemeral only." Now we need an "Evergreen" revolution to respond to the growing food shortage crisis.
Dr Borlaug championed the application of cutting edge science to crop production, and the speakers in these sessions will highlight the opportunities and the challenges of delivering sustainable global food security while maintaining biodiversity.
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