With the Green Revolution fading into the history books, Borlaug said he is dismayed with today's global agricultural problems and he took the opportunity to take aim at the developing world's international agricultural policies. Clearly, our objective should be to establish the policies and institutions that will make it profitable for small-scale farmers to undertake modernizing investments to increase the productivity of agriculture. They will migrate to the cities to join the battalions of unemployed urban poor. The social, political and human health meltdowns that could ensue from such a chaotic exodus might well threaten human civilization. Borlaug explained more about Chandler and others like him who contributed their careers to helping others eat.
Few scientists think of agriculture as the chief, or the model science.
It remains the science which makes life possible and it may well be that, before the century is over, the success or failure of science as a whole will be judged by the success or failure of agriculture.