Jakaya Kikwete Quotes

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.

In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.

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.

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.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

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?

In the 19th century, some people looked at the condition of slavery and said that it was monstrous and unconscionable; that it must be abolished. ... Today the condition of hunger in a world of plenty is equally monstrous and unconscionable and it too must be abolished. We must become the 'new abolitionists'.

Famine, it turns out, is not caused by a failure to produce food. It is caused by a failure to distribute food correctly — because the ruler is not accountable to the starving.

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.

When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.

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.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

You can’t make progress in any of the other problems in the world if people are undernourished.

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

If a man dies of hunger, all the people of the district are responsible for his death

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.

We have been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.

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