Food production Quote by Miguel Altieri

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

— Frances Moore Lappé

“...The real cause of hunger is a scarcity of justice, not a scarcity of food. Enough grain is squandered every day in raising American…

— John Robbins

By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty,…

— Janet Poppendieck

Progress to reduce hunger is being made by tackling both the cause and the consequences of extreme poverty and famine.

— Tae Yoo

Hunger wakes you for work, Failure makes you to achieve, Poverty pushes you to earn, Problems keep you alert. Makes life sweeter & worthier!

— Babloo

Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope

— Jacques Diouf

I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of…

— Frances Moore Lappé

What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do…

— Muhammad Yunus

The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great…

— Scott Glenn

“Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.”

— Paula Brackston

It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated into such…

— Alice Waters

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy,

— Frances Moore Lappé