We have to grow our food differently because industrial…

I knew early on that we needed to settle the food problem because if you can grow food it's empowering. In fact I believe…

— Jules Dervaes

Some kids have never seen what a real tomato looks like off the vine. They don't know where a cucumber comes from. And that…

— Michelle Obama

“Globalized industrialized food is not cheap: it is too costly for the Earth, for the farmers, for our health. The Earth can no longer…

— Vandana Shiva

much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

— Frances Moore Lappé

Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to…

— James Howard Kunstler

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

— James Howard Kunstler

“Human health depends above all on sound nutrition; sound nutrition means growing food and using it in accordance with nature’s laws; of all foods…

— Tim Noakes

In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.

— Mo Ibrahim

Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has…

— Kofi Annan

“No, the founders of our culture didn't just fall into a lifestyle of total dependence on agriculture, they had to whip themselves into it,…

— Daniel Quinn

In our society, growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can-and will-overturn…

— Jules Dervaes

I have a generally optimistic temperament and am thrilled by what I see as a rapidly growing food movement, especially among young people who…

— Marion Nestle

We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2…

— Nina Fedoroff

It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment.…

— Robert Patterson

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving…

— Bill Gates