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" If some consumers believe that it's better from the point of view of their health to have organic food, God bless them. Let them buy it. Let them pay a bit more. "
Norman Borlaug
Food
Better
Believe
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" Water covers about 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Of this total, only about 2.5 percent is fresh water, and most of this is frozen in the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland, in soil moisture, or in deep aquifers not readily accessible for human use. "
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" I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front. "
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" Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. "
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" Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer human misery that, on a numerical scale, will exceed the worst of everything that has come before. "
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" I like the back country, wildlife and all of that, but it's wrong to force poor people to live that way. "
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" When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee designated me the recipient of the 1970 award for my contribution to the 'green revolution,' they were in effect, I believe, selecting an individual to symbolize the vital role of agriculture and food production in a world that is hungry, both for bread and for peace. "
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Peace
Green
" Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. "
Norman Borlaug
Time
Survival
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" Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the 'Population Monster.' "
Norman Borlaug
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Fail
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" If people want to believe that the organic food has better nutritive value, it's up to them to make that foolish decision. But there's absolutely no research that shows that organic foods provide better nutrition. "
Norman Borlaug
Decision
Food
People
" 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. "
Norman Borlaug
Society
Present
Tell
" There are no miracles in agricultural production. "
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Miracles
Production
" Central African farmers don't have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the animals - cattle, the horses, the burros and the mules. So draft animals don't exist, and farming is all by hand, and the hand tools are hoes and machetes. "
Norman Borlaug
Animal
Power
Tools
" One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy. "
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Today
May
World
" 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. "
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World
Half
Fact
" We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation, if we permit future famines. "
Norman Borlaug
Without
Criminal
Guilty
" Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless. "
Norman Borlaug
Food
Man
Live
" Abnormal stresses and strains tend to accentuate man's animal instincts and provoke irrational and socially disruptive behavior among the less stable individuals in the maddening crowd. "
Norman Borlaug
Crowd
Animal
Behavior
" Pricing water delivery closer to its real costs is a necessary step to improving use efficiency. "
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Water
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" Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce. "
Norman Borlaug
Farmers
Business
Ideas
" Clearly, we need to rethink our attitudes about water and move away from thinking of it as nearly a free good and a God-given right. "
Norman Borlaug
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Free
Water
" Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal. "
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Past
Technology
Seeds
" Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. "
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Earth
Environmental
Salt
" Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. "
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India
Africa
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" Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. "
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Justice
Social Justice
First
" For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries. "
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Mexico
Research
World
" If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species. "
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Population
Same
" In my Nobel lecture, I suggested we had until the year 2000 to tame the population monster, and then food shortages would take us under. Now I believe we have a little longer. "
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Now
Year
Us
" In future irrigation schemes, water drainage and removal systems should be budgeted from the start of the project. Unfortunately, adding such costs to the original project often will result in a poor return on investment. Society then will have to decide how much it is willing to subsidize new irrigation development. "
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Start
Result
" Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure. "
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