Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
