Access Quote by Ban Ki-moon

Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use…

— Arancha Gonzalez

If we get agriculture right in Africa, where most of the people now are working in that sector, not only would it help boost…

— Kofi Annan

We are not just a farming area, Africa has great potential and we are a developing continent.

— Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.

— Richard Attias

To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

— Wendell Berry

The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are…

— Richard Attias

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food…

— Bill Gates

Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer…

— Charles C. Mann

Africa needs access to markets.

— Jakaya Kikwete

The possibilities of agriculture on the continent of Africa are immense.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

The agricultural potential of Africa is unlimited.

— Christoffel Wiese

As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on…

— Moshe Sharett