Mark Walport Quotes

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

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

Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.

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

You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa... in Asia. And so the truth is, the U.S. is going to have to produce more, on not very many more acres, honestly. And so we're going to have to do a better job.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

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

The challenge of ensuring adequate, nutrient-rich food for an expanding global population is a daunting one, especially given constraints on key resources like water and agricultural land.

Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.

In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.

There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

The Second Green Revolution, as the world's population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent.

Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.

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.

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.

Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.

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

Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture.

Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we are all part of that chain, all food people, all dedicated to feeding the world.

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.

Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!

Food: We have more of it and pay less for it than any other country in the world.