Ismail Serageldin Quotes

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.

Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

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

It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.

We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.

If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.

The best way to feed the world in 50 years is population control

It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

If we tackle deforestation in the right way, the benefits will be far-reaching - greater food security, improved livelihoods for millions of small farmers and indigenous people, more prosperous rural economies, and above all, a more stable climate.

There is talk about the need for a second Green Revolution. However, such a revolution is nowhere in sight.

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.