{"id":170,"date":"2017-04-18T17:29:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T17:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/?p=170"},"modified":"2017-04-23T21:17:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T21:17:55","slug":"the-real-father-of-the-green-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/2017\/04\/18\/the-real-father-of-the-green-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The real father of the green revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>150 years before Norman Borlaugh&#8217;s\u00a0crosses ushered\u00a0in the High Yielding Varieties we know today, the Italian pioneer of modern plant breeding provided its nation with the highly strategic self sufficiency in wheat production, during the autarchic effort known as &#8220;battaglia del grano&#8221; (the battle of\u00a0the wheat).\u00a0Nazareno Strampelli&#8217;s <em>Durum<\/em> wheat &#8220;Senatore Cappelli&#8221; has recently resurged\u00a0to glory, thanks to its excellent quality for pasta making and suitability to organic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/etp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeremy Cherfas<\/a> reports &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote data-secret=\"ESUHdHM9iY\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatthispodcast.com\/the-true-father-of-the-first-green-revolution\/\">The True Father of the First Green Revolution<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatthispodcast.com\/the-true-father-of-the-first-green-revolution\/embed\/#?secret=ESUHdHM9iY\" data-secret=\"ESUHdHM9iY\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The True Father of the First Green Revolution&#8221; &#8212; Eat This Podcast\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>150 years before Norman Borlaugh&#8217;s\u00a0crosses ushered\u00a0in the High Yielding Varieties we know today, the Italian pioneer of modern plant breeding provided its nation with the highly strategic self sufficiency in wheat production, during the autarchic effort known as &#8220;battaglia del grano&#8221; (the battle of\u00a0the wheat).\u00a0Nazareno Strampelli&#8217;s Durum wheat &#8220;Senatore Cappelli&#8221; has recently resurged\u00a0to glory, thanks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/2017\/04\/18\/the-real-father-of-the-green-revolution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The real father of the green revolution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,18,21,22],"tags":[25,28],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-security","category-low-input-agriculture","category-nutrition","category-organic-farming","category-yield-gap","tag-blog","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}