Norman Borlaug

Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

— Norman Borlaug

For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled…

— Norman Borlaug

Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very…

— Norman Borlaug

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

— Norman Borlaug

Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all…

— Norman Borlaug

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

— Norman Borlaug

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the…

— Norman Borlaug

There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two…

— Norman Borlaug

This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.

— Norman Borlaug

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most…

— Norman Borlaug

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

— Norman Borlaug

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

— Norman Borlaug

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty…

— Norman Borlaug

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

— Norman Borlaug

Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them…

— Norman Borlaug

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

— Norman Borlaug

Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.

— Norman Borlaug

There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those…

— Norman Borlaug

I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed…

— Norman Borlaug

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

— Norman Borlaug

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the…

— Norman Borlaug

Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress…

— Norman Borlaug

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those…

— Norman Borlaug

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

— Norman Borlaug

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the…

— Norman Borlaug