Food production Quote by Edward A. Hudson

“Agricultural productivity had been rising for some time, leading to increasing production of food and, as food accounted for most of the household budget,…

— Edward A. Hudson

“Once our ancestors began cultivating land for food, they were running on a wheel, but never fast enough. More land provides more food. And…

— Christopher Ryan

“less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind, but the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

— Daniel Quinn

“The great inequality of the modern world that emerged in the nineteenth century was caused by the uneven dissemination of industrial technologies and manufacturing…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“England achieved the breakthrough to growth. England’s growth followed from agricultural advances which increased incomes sufficiently that people started to demand more manufactured goods.”

— Edward A. Hudson

“1.9% had agricultural jobs, more than a 20-fold improvement in productivity per person. So if all people wanted was to be fed, the average…

— Daniel Berleant

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more…

— James Howard Kunstler

It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes…

— Richard Lamm

“... economic growth is driven by supply factors such as improved technologies and access to more or better resources.”

— Campbell McConnell

“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of the land…

— Nina Fedoroff

“To think of food as a weapon, or of a weapon as food, may give an illusory security and wealth to a few, but…

— Wendell Berry