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Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.
There are no miracles in agricultural production.
Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
Roads are essential to any type of agricultural development.
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.
The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development.
Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the 'Population Monster.'
It's amazing how often campaigners in rich countries think poor people don't get backache.
We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation, if we permit future famines.
If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.
Pricing water delivery closer to its real costs is a necessary step to improving use efficiency.
This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.
I like the back country, wildlife and all of that, but it's wrong to force poor people to live that way.
We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.
Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists.
Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.
Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
Clearly, we need to rethink our attitudes about water and move away from thinking of it as nearly a free good and a God-given right.
One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy.
As far as plants are concerned, they can't tell whether that nitrate ion comes from artificial chemicals or from decomposed organic matter.
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
These places I've seen have clubbed my mind - they are so poor and depressing. I don't know what we can do to help these people, but we've got to do something.
If some consumers believe that it's better from the point of view of their health to have organic food, God bless them. Let them buy it. Let them pay a bit more.
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
The breakup of the former Soviet Union has caused its grain output to plummet, but if the new republics recover economically, they could produce vast amounts of food.
It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive.
In my Nobel lecture, I suggested we had until the year 2000 to tame the population monster, and then food shortages would take us under. Now I believe we have a little longer.
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
Abnormal stresses and strains tend to accentuate man's animal instincts and provoke irrational and socially disruptive behavior among the less stable individuals in the maddening crowd.
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries.
Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer human misery that, on a numerical scale, will exceed the worst of everything that has come before.
If people want to believe that the organic food has better nutritive value, it's up to them to make that foolish decision. But there's absolutely no research that shows that organic foods provide better nutrition.
Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.
When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards of the wheat rubbing together. They sound like the pine needles in a forest. It is a sweet, whispering music that once you hear, you never forget.