Alternative Quote by John Burdett

To us in Asia, rice is such a staple, we take it for granted. I didn't even think about how I made it until…

— Nigel Ng

In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it.…

— Neal Barnard

Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for…

— Nicolas Berggruen

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's…

— Noam Chomsky

“A good family farm produces more, in net terms, than the farm family consumes. The good farmer has secured enough land to grow crops…

— Jørgen Randers

What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries. No underdeveloped…

— Francis Fukuyama

We must enable farmers to feed India and the world; and earn a good livelihood.

— Narendra Modi

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a…

— Jet Li

I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don't just mean…

— Stewart Butterfield

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are…

— Ertharin Cousin

The governments and the communist parties in Vietnam and China are doing their best to develop their local economies. But the rise of countries…

— Nguyen Minh Triet

Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy, like it…

— Kevin Kwan