Norman Borlaug
Scientist
1914-03-25
Quotes by Norman Borlaug
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You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.
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You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.
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Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
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Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.
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Water covers about 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Of this total, only about 2.5 percent is fresh water, and most of this is frozen in the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland, in soil moisture, or in deep aquifers not readily accessible for human use.
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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.
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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.
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I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.
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Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
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For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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