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- Nov 07, 2020
If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.
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It's amazing how often campaigners in rich countries think poor people don't get backache.
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Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.
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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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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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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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Pricing water delivery closer to its real costs is a necessary step to improving use efficiency.
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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.
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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.
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Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.
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The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development.
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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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- Nov 07, 2020
We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life. For a decent and humane life, we must also provide an opportunity for good education, remunerative employment, comfortable housing, good clothing, and effective and compassionate medical care.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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