Josette Sheeran Quotes

Every nation must concern themselves with ensuring its population has sufficient and stable access to food - ours is no exception. Nor can we afford to ignore other nations' concerns about access to food.

The day you really want to end all hunger, there will be no more hunger.

It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.

There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.

In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

In 2010, I created World Central Kitchen as a way to try and help find solutions to many of the food issues we face.

I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.

Food has become such an interesting issue in the nation and the world.

A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa... in Asia. And so the truth is, the U.S. is going to have to produce more, on not very many more acres, honestly. And so we're going to have to do a better job.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

If you eat, you should be concerned about the people who are providing you with food.

'Generation Food' is a collaboration between myself and author/activist Raj Patel that will tell stories about efforts around the world to try to solve the food crisis - through a documentary, a book, a website and mobile apps.

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

When you introduce markets in food, then you introduce two very simple rules. The first rule is this: if you have money you can get the food from wherever around the world. The other rule markets impose is this: if you do not have money, you will starve. ... The reason why people starve is because of poverty ... not because of a shortage of food ... but because the only way to access the food is through the market.

Foreign investors producing food in a country full of hungry people face another political is how to get the grain out. Will villagers permit trucks laden with grain headed for cities to proceed when they themselves are on the verge of starvation.

The motto of the Netherlands is translated into English as 'I will uphold.' But I want you to know that, as we go forward, our message together is not just 'I will uphold,' but 'we will uphold.'

I simply believe that food is a human right.

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 been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.