Ability Quote by Lester R. Brown

“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

“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

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

— Howard Graham Buffett

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

— Daniel Quinn

“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions. Yet”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

— Ben Bova

If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at…

— Dan Barber

As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry…

— Nhat Hanh

Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite…

— Ellen Gustafson

Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the…

— Sharon Gannon

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

“If there are forty thousand people in an area that can only support thirty thousand, it’s no kindness to bring in food from the…

— Daniel Quinn