Norman Borlaug Quotes

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

Famine has wreaked havoc in Ethiopia for so long, it would be stupid not to be sensitive to the risk of such things occurring. But there has not been a famine on our watch - emergencies, but no famines.

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.

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.

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

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.

In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century.

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

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

We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation, if we permit future famines.

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.

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

People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

The free press is good on major disasters like classic famines, but it tolerates chronic hunger as much as anyone else.

Every second of every day there are three new mouths to feed in this world.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

We Americans have food in massive oversupply. That oversupply has crushed farm prices. We must dispose of the surpluses in order to strengthen prices, and we should dispose of them by feeding the starving and hungry overseas and the malnourished at home.

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?

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.

Hunger is not debatable.

I simply believe that food is a human right.

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

When we talk about famine, people start listing, as I have, its many different elements. We must not let the complexity of the subject put us off. We must continue putting our efforts into prevention.

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.