“Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.” PeopleIfsHumansUseAnimalMillionsCuttingMaterialsWasteAreasIncreasePlantBillionsForestsSoilAgricultureAcresManureCutting Down Author:Norman Borlaug
“The sugar industry doesn't want to see more of the agricultural areas turned into storm-water treatment areas. Ultimately they want to develop that land for houses and a shopping center.” WantHouseWaterLandIndustryAreasStormTreatmentShoppingSugarAgricultureShopping Centers Author:Charles Lee
“I was told by journalists who can't publish it that there are in Mexico, close to the U.S. border, big areas that used to be devoted to agriculture that are now devoted to poppies. They say you can't get in there because they're guarded, first by the cartels, but also by the army, which goes hand in hand with the cartels.” FirstsHandsBigsUsedAreasArmyUsed To BeJournalistBordersMexicoDevotedAgriculturePublishHand In HandGuardedPoppiesCartels Author:Noam Chomsky
“They have a policy in China for their big companies called "Go abroad." It's a rational thing for both the company and the country to say, "We want big, successful companies." Particularly in areas where they need it: agriculture, energy, technology. I think banking, too. One or two have bought a trading house. Some have already begun expanding around the world. Of course they're going to have those ambitions. Why wouldn't they? They're just doing it methodically. It's a logical strategy and, well-executed, they will succeed.” ThinkingWorldWantNeedsWellsTwoCountryBigsCoursesHouseEnergyCompanyTechnologySuccessfulPolicySucceedAmbitionAreasStrategyChinaRationalAround The WorldLogicalAgricultureTradingBankingExpandingBig CompaniesSuccessful Company Author:Jamie Dimon
“I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.” ThinkingKidsBalanceAreasRaisedFarmsIsolatedAgricultureRural Areas Author:James Earl Jones
“The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really.” ImportantModernAreasImportant ThingsAgricultureForbiddenWitchcraft Author:Bill Mollison
“If we get agriculture right in Africa, where most of the people now are working in that sector, not only would it help boost development but we will be secure in terms of food and nutrition and then be able to move on to other areas.” PeopleIfsHelpingAbleMovingTermDevelopmentAreasSecureNutritionAgricultureBoost Author:Kofi Annan