We were in an agronomy class and talking about all the revolutionary increases in crop production with plant breeding. No other race seems to have an equivalent of what Norman Borlaug did in the Green Revolution, though New Guinean Blacks did pioneer great techniques for growing crops in high rainfall hilly jungle areas. Those in equivalent climates in Africa? Not so much.
Norman Borlaug was a poor student, but a brilliant agronomist.
He did things with wheat that were explicitly told to be not possible. He just wanted them dome.
Borlaug was a unicorn. Someone who had the right gifts, and was not told to stop by the powers that be.
He is why poor people are now fat the world over, and he is hated by just about ever environmentalist I know.