Barbara Amiel Quotes

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

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 are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

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.

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.

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

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

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.

Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

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

A hungry man is not a free man.

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

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

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.

I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.