India had a conference with their 16 leaders from the foreign assistance agencies and eight scientific food production consultants to discuss strategies on how to turn around their food production through science rather than food aid and to improve their farming. Two key leaders would be Adekke Boerma and John Hannah. "The war-induced famine in Bengal in 1943 had earlier resulted in the death of between 1.5 and 3 million people” (“Revisting the Impacts of the Green Revolution in India”). “In April of 1969, 16 leaders from the world's major foreign assistance agencies and eight scientific food production consultants met at the conference center at Villa Serbelloni, Italy to devise a strategy to feed the world's hungry through science, rather than food aid”(“Revisting the Impacts of the Green Revolution in India”).