Global Hunger Quotes

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

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.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

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

You know what the problem is with world hunger? We've been sending them food.

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse.

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

Farmfree production promises a far more stable and reliable food supply that can be grown anywhere, even in countries without farmland. It could be crucial to ending world hunger.

The Safe and Affordable Food Labeling Act aims to address unnecessary impediments to feeding the world.

Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China.

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.

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

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.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

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

We don't need to cure hunger - we know how to solve hunger - it's food, it's nutrition, and it's really a question of access.

There are 6 million people in the world. With organic farming, we will only be able to feed 4 billion of them. Which 2 billion will volunteer to die?

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!