[DOC] [TLE] Green Revolution facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] The Green Revolution was the notable increase in cereal-grains production in ... 
of hybrid strains of wheat, rice, and corn (maize) and the adoption of modern ... in 
the developing world and that the population would surpass the means of food ... 
The very fact that the new crop varieties were developed with foreign support... [DOC] [TLE] Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices : Article ... [PAR] New incentives and policies for ensuring the sustainability of agriculture and ... 
Agricultural practices determine the level of food production and, to a great .... 
Without the use of synthetic fertilizers, world food production could not have 
increased at the .... Three cereals  wheat, rice and corn  provide 60% of 
human food. [DOC] [TLE] Norman Borlaug - Wikipedia [PAR] Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914  September 12, 2009) was an 
American biologist, .... The goal of the project was to boost wheat production in 
Mexico, which at the time ... These lines can easily be replaced with new resistant 
lines. ... Borlaug's team, under Anderson, began its effort by importing about 450 
tons of... [DOC] [TLE] The World - Food Production And the Birth Rate Are In a New Race ... [PAR] May 10, 1992 ... WITHOUT a huge increase in food production in the developing ... But without 
success from such an effort, the United Nations warned last month, the world 
faces "four ... in human numbers in all history," with its population likely to double 
... of wheat, rice, corn and other crops combined to produce explosive... [DOC] [TLE] Food Supply Under Strain on a Warming Planet - The New York Times [PAR] Jun 5, 2011 ... A rising unease about the future of the world's food supply came through during 
... to raise food production across much of the developing world. ... but with bad 
weather threatening the wheat and corn crops in some ... They also ran tests 
using corn, America's single most valuable crop and the basis for its... [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 7. Grain Yields Starting to Plateau | | Earth Policy Institute [PAR] The average world grain yield in 1950 was 1.1 tons per hectare. ... And the North 
China Plain produces half of China's wheat and a third of its corn. ... It was the 
first of many new highly productive rice strains to come from IRRI. ... where food is 
consumed far from where it is produced, using fertilizer to replace the lost 
nutrients... [DOC] [TLE] 8 Ways to Fix the Global Food Crisis | US News [PAR] May 9, 2008 ... The strain on U.S. consumers, grappling with the sharpest increase in ... for the 
shortage of a different grainricein far-off Central Asia. ... And the U.N., 
already coping with a 55 percent rise in food aid costs, now confronts a new crisis
, ... But the corn ethanol lobby makes a key point: "The crises the world... [DOC] [TLE] Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity - AgBioWorld [PAR] Borlaug's initial efforts in a few African nations have yielded the same rapid 
increases ... By producing more food from less land, Borlaug argues, high-yield 
farming will ... into "the world's breadbasket," not only annually increasing total 
production ... his wheat, researchers were seeking dwarf strains of rice at the 
International... [DOC] [TLE] Feeding 9 Billion | National Geographic [PAR] But we can no longer afford to increase food production through agricultural 
expansion. ... The world can now turn its attention to increasing yields on less 
productive ... standing after farmers cleared this parcel of Amazon rain forest to 
grow corn. ... For every 100 calories of grain we feed animals, we get only about 
40 new... [DOC] [TLE] CGIAR News Archives: Agricultural Scientists Design Better Future ... [PAR] These scientists are developing new "super" rice, wheat and cassava strains and 
... The CGIAR will focus its best scientific efforts on the problems identified by ... 
world, with the CGIAR's help, have increased average yields in these food crops: 
... managed to produce a drought-tolerant strain

Question: Using new strains of corn, rice, and wheat, it's the effort to increase food production in the Third World
Answer: the Green Revolution