Best Green Revolution Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I last spoke to Borlaug, a few years before he passed away, I asked him about the past criticisms. Critics, he said, never wanted to answer the counterfactual question: Where would the world be today if we had the same growth in population and affluence but none of the yield increases of the Green Revolution? Overuse of fertilizer, water-logging soils, loading up land with toxic salts from badly run irrigation schemes—these were real issues, he said. But wouldn't you rather have these for problems than the kind of hunger we had in 1968? He asked me if I had ever been to a place where most of the people weren't getting enough to eat. "Not just poor, but actually hungry all the time," he said. I told him that I hadn't been to such a place. "That's the point," he said. "When I was getting started, you couldn't avoid them.”

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Book:The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World

Source: The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World

“You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“We heard of White & Green Revolution but now we need a Blue Revolution & harness the potential in fisheries sector.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“With the increasing demand for holistic health care and the 'green revolution', the demand for aromatherapy will increase, and hopefully we will reach the point where medical doctors incorporate it into their repertoire. It will become routine for doctors to send culture samples to the pharmacist for testing, and identify the relevant aromatherapy for the patient. The stress-relieving properties associated with aromatherapy make it an indispensable part of health care.”

“The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't have a clue what they're doing.”

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Author:Jonah Goldberg

“If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.”

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Author:Juan Enriquez

“There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.”

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Author:E. O. Wilson

“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.”

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Book:Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad

Source: Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad

“Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.”

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Author:Norman Borlaug

“Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.”

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Author:Norman Borlaug

“Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.”

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Book:Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad

Source: Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad

“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.”

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Author:Norman Borlaug

“To achieve a Green Revolution, African farmers, must have access to land and security of tenure. They also need access to markets, technology and improved infrastructure.”

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Author:Ban Ki-moon

“Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.”

“Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.”

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Book:Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad

Source: Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad

“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.”

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Book:Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad

Source: Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad

“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”

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Author:Norman Borlaug

“To change our national economic story from one of financial speculation to one of future growth, we need a third industrial revolution: a green revolution. It will transform our economy as surely as the shift from iron to steel, from steam to oil. It will lead us toward a low-carbon future, with cleaner energy and greener growth. With an economy that is built to last - on more sustainable, more stable foundations”