Howard Graham Buffett Quotes

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.

Even if we could produce enough food globally to feed everyone satisfactorily, the continued steady rise in the cost of inputs will mean increasing numbers will not be able to afford the food we produce. This is a key point that is often missed.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.

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

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

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.

What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.

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

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.

There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry.

I certainly didn't grow up ever having to worry about where my next meal was coming from. The fact that so many people, even in our own country, worry about something so basic, it's something I really wanted to help to do something about.

Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

Nobody in this country, the richest on Earth, should ever go hungry.

My own motivation has come from the fact that all the indicators in the world, the hunger index or whatever index you say, shows a high prevalence of malnutrition.

Actually if you were to buy a bag of dried lentils it would cost you a couple of quid. Some people don't have that to spend in the first place. And not everyone wants to eat lentils.

Food is such a basic need, and it is unfathomable to me that people still do not have adequate access.

America's dumpsters should not be better fed than its people.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.