Best quotes by Norman Borlaug on World
Checkout quotes by Norman Borlaug on World
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‟ Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
- Norman Borlaug
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‟ 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
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‟ 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.
- Norman Borlaug
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‟ 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.
- Norman Borlaug
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‟ One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy.
- Norman Borlaug
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‟ 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.
- Norman Borlaug
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‟ 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.
- Norman Borlaug
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‟ The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
- Norman Borlaug
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‟ Unless there is one master gene for yield, which I'm guessing there is not, engineering for yield will be very complex. It may happen eventually, but through the coming decades, we must assume that gene engineering will not be the answer to the world's food problems.
- Norman Borlaug
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‟ If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.
- Norman Borlaug