"Even if you could use all the organic……" — Norman Borlaug
"Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests."
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Norman Borlaug
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30 Quotes by Norman Borlaug
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Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but…
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Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
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Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy…
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The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
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Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are…
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Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
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Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
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There are no miracles in agricultural production.
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I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions…
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Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of…
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Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.
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Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right…
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