every minute, over 90% in developing countries. It is anticipated that by 2050 world population will reach 8 billion [1]. This promises to cause massive famines in the developing countries, where the problem of consistent food supply is already present today.
             In the 1960's Dr. Norman Borlaug developed high-yielding, rust-resistant varieties of wheat, which tolerated high dozes of fertilizers and didn't lodge during heavy winds or rain. Aside from high yields of crops, the new variety of wheat allowed for mechanization, which, combined with fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation technologies, resulted in the "Green Revolution," a term invented by the popular press to describe the spectacular increase in cereal grain production [2]. Agricultural assistance following the Green Revolution, including the humanitarian export of new grain varieties technologies, allowed to meet the growing demand for food in third world countries [2]. Thus, the Green Revolution was heralded as the solution to meeting the needs of the world's population that doubled in size over the past forty years [4].
             The Green Revolution, however, fell short of the optimistic projections of the 1960s, because it presupposed high-intensity farming, which has multiple shortcomings. The environmental implications include the release of greenhouse gases, monoculture cropping (with consequent loss of
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