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Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.

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Improving Potato Production in Mexico: John S. Niederhauser and Rockefeller Foundation-Sponsored Research during the 1950s and 1960s

January 1, 2008

John S. Niederhauser was an important scientist and administrator in the Rockefeller Foundation's Mexican Agricultural Program (MAP) from the 1940s through the 1960s. In 1943, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mexican government established a program to improve agricultural production in Mexico. The MAP originated much of the agricultural practice and procedure that became known as the "Green Revolution." From 1961 to 1972, Niederhauser directed the Inter-American and International Potato Improvement Programs headquartered in Mexico. For his contributions to the improvement of agricultural production, he was awarded the World Food Prize in 1990.

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