- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Diseases
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Decent Standard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Evident
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries.
- Different Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.
- Agriculture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Miracles
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- Nov 07, 2020