Jim Yong Kim Quotes

When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

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.

You can't expect kids who don't have enough to eat to do well.

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

The federal government spends about $2.51 per child per day to feed them lunch. Out of that, you have to pay for labor, facilities, and administrative costs, leaving about a dollar for food. Imagine trying to feed yourself a nutritious meal every day with only a dollar. Very difficult.

After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

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

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

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

Hunger's a great spur.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

When I was at school, you could tell the demography of children by how thin they were. You could see by looking at their eyes.

My own motivation has come from the fact that all the indicators in the world, the hunger index or whatever index you say, shows a high prevalence of malnutrition.

India unfortunately has the unenviable reputation of being the home to the largest number of undernourished children, women and men in the world.

Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.

Too many children and adults go hungry every day.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.