Norman Borlaug Quotes

There can be no effective solution of the Indian food problem that does not include population control.

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

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

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

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

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 first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

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.

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

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 have already broken the link between food production and population. This will soon be complete.

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.

The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

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

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

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

The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.

The right use of food can end hunger.

I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.

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.

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

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

To ensure a healthier and more abundant world, we simply must slow the world’s explosive growth in population.