Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
“Most peasant farmers and herders, who constitute the great majority of the world's actual food producers, aren't necessarily better off than hunter-gatherers.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
We announced that there'd be no more starvation in India. And you responded, 'Impossible. You'll never succeed!' Instead we succeeded; today in… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“Leaders would be born in this movement, unlikely heroes whose impact on food production would change a nation, and possibly the world.… — Carolyn Holland Copy Share Image
The blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within an ecological and cultural… — John Todd Copy Share Image
“The objectives of food production are to destroy harmful bacteria (food safety); increase digestibility; change and enhance flavor, form, texture, aroma, and… — Ruby Parker Puckett Copy Share Image
Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed for us a stage where we made one of the most crucial decisions in… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I think the best and perhaps only sensible policy for the future is to prepare society for change and be prepared to… — Lennart Bengtsson Copy Share Image
If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Our hair is as much as 14 percent L-cysteine, an amino acid commonly used to make meat flavorings and to elasticize dough… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The international community must offer short-term emergency measures to meet critical needs. But it must also make longer-term investments to promote food… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
“food production was indirectly a prerequisite for the development of guns, germs, and steel. Hence geographic variation in whether, or when, the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare,… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop… — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The fact that cultures are failing all over the world means that they don't know how to operate a society to make… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of food production, storage, handling, and the Lord’s counsel, wheat should have high priority. Water, of course, is essential.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority.… — Josette Sheeran Copy Share Image
The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid… — Eliot Coleman Copy Share Image
We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
“Drug addicts perplex me. They're a relatively recent development, historically speaking. Everyone has their theories - monotheists like to blame it on… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
“Because the true root cause of hunger is inequality, any method of boosting food production that deepens inequality will fail to reduce… — Miguel Altieri Copy Share Image
I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution… — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land,… — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
