The Green Revolution was launched in the 1960s with the goal of averting famine, reducing rural poverty, and modernizing the agriculture sector of developing Asia and Latin America. The Revolution was successful in promoting widespread use of new, input responsive seeds together with irrigation, fertilizer, and pesticides to increase cereal crop yields and improve food security (Davies 2003; Evenson and Gollin 2003). While the Green Revolution had negative environmental impacts including land degradation and excessive use of water in some areas (Hazell 2009; Meena et al. 2013), the Revolution’s “father,” Norman Borlaug, highlighted that without agricultural intensification, 18–23 million hectares of additional land would have been needed to produce sufficient food to prevent world hunger (Stevenson et al. 2013).