4 Norman Borlaug Quotes on Food

Norman Borlaug quotes on food

2. '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.'

4. 'I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology? While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called 'organic' methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of the low income, food-deficit nations cannot.'

5. 'Producing food for 6.2 billion people, adding a population of 80 million more a year, is not simple. We better develop an ever improved science and technology, including the new biotechnology, to produce the food that's needed for the world today.' In response to the fraction of the world population that could be fed if current farmland was convered to organic-only crops: 'We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.' In response to extreme critics: 'These are utopian that live on Cloud 9 and come into the third world and cause all kinds of confusion and negative impacts on the developing countries.'

18. 'Thanks to the Green Revolution, the real price of food is half or less than it was in 1960 which means those who spend the highest portion of their income on food - the urban and non-farm rural poor -- garner the most benefit from it.'