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Nature 455, 470-471 (25 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/455470a; Published online 24 September 2008
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- Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
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Meetings that changed the world: Bellagio 1969: The green revolution
Lowell S. Hardin1
- Lowell S. Hardin was a participant in the Bellagio Conference on Agricultural Development. He is assistant director of International Programs in Agriculture at Purdue University and was the Ford Foundation's program officer for Agriculture, Office of the Vice President, 1965–81.
Email: lhardin@purdue.edu
Abstract
Agriculture in developing countries was transformed when scientists met aid officials and convinced them to invest in research. Lowell S. Hardin was there, and believes today's food crisis demands a similar vision.
In late April 1969, I took a taxi up a narrow, winding road outside Bellagio on Italy's Lake Como, to a meeting called by the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, George Harrar.
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