Asia Quote by Douglas MacArthur

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on…

— Anonymous

The farmer, as conceived and portrayed by me in 'Upkar' is a modern, educated one. He is socially conscious, aware of his rights and…

— Manoj Kumar

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

— Kushal Pal Singh

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

— Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city.…

— Michael Pollan

“The history of China’s “land reform” was written in the tears and blood of landowners like my great-grandfather. But the 300 million poor Chinese…

— Helen Raleigh

“Farmers were given a plot of land in exchange for overthrowing their leaders. Violence was an indispensable feature of land distribution, implicating a majority…

— Frank Dikötter

The Chinese countryside has become a slave labour camp and dumping ground for every imaginable pollutant. The rural peasantry is being sucked dry by…

— Vivek Agnihotri

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended…

— Thomas Jefferson

Land is becoming a diminishing resource for agriculture, in spite of a growing understanding that the future of food security will depend upon the…

— M. S. Swaminathan

The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Less land is being converted into agriculture globally in part because farmers are growing more food on less land.

— Michael Shellenberger