Dr. Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient and Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture at Texas A&M University, was the 2000 Agricultural Achievement Lecturer for the SHSU Department of Agricultural Sciences. His lecture was entitled "Food Needs for the World in Year 2025" and was attended by approximately 200 students and faculty at the Lowman Student Center Ballroom.

Borlaug, who has been honored by scores of governments, universities, scientific associations, farmer groups, and civic associations, holds approximately 45 honorary doctorate degrees and belongs to the academies of science of 12 nations. He has served on two U.S. Presidential Commissions: on World Hunger and on Science and Technology.

It was on the research stations and farmers' fields of Mexico that Borlaug developed successive generations of wheat varieties with broad and stable disease resistance, broad adaptation to growing conditions across many degrees of latitude, and with exceedingly high yield potential. These wheats and improved crop management practices transformed agricultural production in Mexico during the 1940s and 1950s and later in Asia and Latin America, sparking what today is known as the "Green Revolution."

His directorships of the Population Crisis Committee and Population Communications International reflect his long-term concern with the world population explosion and the pressure it places on global natural resources, in the quest to feed a world that is now growing by nearly 100 million people per year.