Progress to reduce hunger is being made by tackling both…

“Because the true root cause of hunger is inequality, any method of boosting food production that deepens inequality will fail to reduce hunger. Conversely,…

— Miguel Altieri

I have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge to reduce hunger and poverty.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out…

— Rajiv Shah

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total…

— Norman Borlaug

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I…

— Muhammad Yunus

“In famine, a focus on women and children highlights biology: here is a mother who cannot feed her child, a breakdown in the natural…

— Sharman Apt Russell

I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine,…

— William Saroyan

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health…

— Marian Wright Edelman

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy…

— Noreena Hertz

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest…

— Jeffrey Sachs

The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and the Polish…

— Marty Walsh

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

— Bill Gates

“The corporate government is completely okay with sending sickened people into extreme poverty for the rest of their lives by blatantly denying their genuine…

— Steven Magee

It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is…

— Juan Manuel Santos