In the 1940s, US agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug kicked off the Green Revolution with his development of disease-resistant varieties of plants. Borlaug's hope was to use technology to meet the basic daily nutritional needs of every person on the planet by the end of the 20th century.
1940 年代，美國農業學家柏洛格啟動了以改善農技為手段，培養可抗病蟲害品種的「綠色革命」，他期待能夠憑藉科技昌明之助，在 20 世紀達成世界上每個人都擁有「一日之麵包」的基本需求；柏洛格也在 1970 年榮獲諾貝爾和平獎。