People in the Green Revolution
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People of the Green Revolution provides a list and description of the people who were important figures in the Green Revolution.
Contents
U.S. Government
- Josephus Daniels: U.S. Ambassador to Mexico in the 1930's. Likely relayed the Rockefeller Foundation's interest in an agricultural project in Mexico to Henry A. Wallace in 1940.[1]
- Nelson Rockefeller:
- Henry A. Wallace: Vice President of the United States from 1941-1944. Suggested that the Rockefeller Foundation undertake a project to increase agricultural productivity in Mexico in 1941.[2]
Mexican Government
- Manuel Avila Camacho: President of Mexico, 1940-1946, who wanted to industrialize Mexican agriculture.
Rockefeller Foundation
- Chester I. Barnard: President of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1948 until 1952.[3]
- Richard Bradfield: Advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation, head of the department of Agronomy at Cornell.
- Norman E. Borlaug: A plant pathologist and plant breeder, who worked on wheat breeding in Mexico.[4]
- John S. Dickey: A Rockefeller Foundation trustee.
- John A. Ferrell: The first person to propose what ultimately became the Green Revolution.[5]
- Raymond B. Fosdick: Rockefeller Foundation president at the start of the Green Revolution
- J. George Harrar: The director of the Mexican Agricultural Program and later President of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1961 until 1972.[6][7]
- Albert R. Mann: Former Dean of Agriculture at Cornell University, director of Rockefeller Foundation agriculture program in China prior to the Green Revolution.[8]
- Paul C. Mangelsdorf: Advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation.
- Dean Rusk: President of the Rockefeller Foundation 1952 to 1961.[9]
- Elvin C. Stakman: Advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation and plant pathologist at University of Minnesota.[10]
- Warren Weaver: A mathematician who headed up Rockefeller Foundation's Division of Natural Sciences
- Edwin J. Wellhausen: A maize geneticist who worked on maize breeding in Mexico.[11]
- Peter Randolph Jennings: Plant breeder at the International Rice Research Institute
Ford Foundation
- Douglas Ensminger: Project director of the Ford Foundation's efforts to train personnel for the Community Development Project in India.[12]
Other Figures
- Wilbur Hugh "Ping" Ferry: coined the term "Green Revolution."[13]
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch articles
References
- ↑ John H. Perkins, Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 106
- ↑ Bruce H. Jennings, Foundations of International Agricultural Research: Science and Politics in Mexican Agriculture, p. 48
- ↑ Moments in Time 1940-1949, Accessed April 19, 2011.
- ↑ John H. Perkins, Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 107
- ↑ John H. Perkins, Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 106
- ↑ John H. Perkins, Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 107
- ↑ Moments in Time: 1960-1969, Accessed April 19, 2011.
- ↑ John H. Perkins, Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 106
- ↑ Moments in Time: 1950-1959, Accessed April 19, 2011.
- ↑ John H. Perkins, Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 106
- ↑ John H. Perkins, Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 107
- ↑ John H. Perkins, The Rockefeller Foundation and the green revolution, 1941–1956, Agriculture and Human Values, Volume 7, Numbers 3-4, 6-18.
- ↑ Mark Dowie, American Foundations, The MIT Press, 2001, p. 112
