Gro Harlem Brundtland Quotes

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

If, at the end of my mandate, all Brazilians have the possibility to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, I will have fulfilled the mission of my life.

I simply believe that food is a human right.

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

To ensure food security for all, we should be clear about the definition of the problem, the precise index of measuring impact and the road map to achieve the goal.

Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

For the first time we have the technical capacity to free mankind from the scourge of hunger.

There are 6 million people in the world. With organic farming, we will only be able to feed 4 billion of them. Which 2 billion will volunteer to die?

Basic human needs like food cannot be corporate questions.

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.

We don't need to cure hunger - we know how to solve hunger - it's food, it's nutrition, and it's really a question of access.

We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save the sight of millions or fortify their bones. But they will certainly help.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

The right use of food can end hunger.

When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

You can’t make progress in any of the other problems in the world if people are undernourished.