Norman Borlaug, the U.S. agricultural scientist who won the 1970 Nobel peace prize for his role in tackling world hunger has died on Saturday at the age of 95. (Texas A&M University, Reuters, Washington Post, Guardian)

Borlaug developed high-yielding, disease-resistant wheat kick-starting the “green revolution” in the 1960’s that dramatically increased food production in the developing world.

Borlaug served as a distinguished professor of international agriculture at Texas A&M University, in College Station, Texas.

“We all eat at least three times a day in privileged nations, and yet we take food for granted,” Borlaug said in a recent interview. “There has been great progress, and food is more equitably distributed. But hunger is commonplace, and famine appears all too often.”

Sharad Pawar, the Indian Agriculture Minister, said that his country and many other nations owed “a debt of gratitude to this outstanding personality” for helping to forge world peace. (Times)

Borlaug “saved more lives than any man in human history,” Josette Sheeran, executive director, of the World Food Programme, said in a statement.

“His total devotion to ending famine and hunger revolutionized food security for millions of people and for many nations,” she added.