Gro Harlem Brundtland Quotes

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.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

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.

I'm obsessed about lifting the greatest number of Argentines possible out of poverty as quickly as possible.

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.

Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can.

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.

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.

To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

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.

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

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

It's hard for people who have never faced hunger or illiteracy to understand how crucial they are to the majority of mankind.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

There is no starvation in China today. This is something that has not ever been achieved by any other government in China – ever.

We are living in a time when the comforts of life, and all the material wealth needed to bring happiness to every human being, can be produced in abundance. There is no need whatever for one human being to go hungry, homeless or naked. Man’s inventive genius has developed the tool to that point, and guided the natural forces to that degree, that abundance is possible to all.

Debt relief without the opening of markets will not relieve third world countries from their poverty.

We must labour to create the grain to feed people with. All other needs that we have are secondary; there is only one physical distress, and that is hunger.

In most parts of our world, the rural community dominates. The numbers of people in rural communities in the Islamic world, plus the difficulty of addressing the problems of development in rural communities, is a central issue.

I think we have to accelerate our development. Slow development means hunger …

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.