Location: Latin America

Launched in the 1960s, this program provided financial support for more than two decades to strengthen universities in the Global South.

In the 1980s, critics argued that some groups had been left behind by the Green Revolution.

Saving threatened scholars and confronting a dramatically changed world.

When the restrictive military regime that had taken power in Brazil in 1964 became even more repressive by 1969, staffers at the Ford Foundation found themselves facing a conundrum.