“Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.” WholeTogetherValuesLandProduceEqualOrdinaryRateProfitBelongingUsualAgricultureCultivation Book:The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author Source: The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author
“Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.” PeopleSoulUseNationsSupportProduceIndustryRichesChiefsEmpiresAgriculture Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.” NeedsUseTodayPolicyProduceAvailableSoilAgricultureParadigmHolistic Author:Allan Savory
“One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy to commerce. They admit me a friend of agriculture, and suppose me an enemy to the only means of disposing of its produce.” IfsMeanHas BeensSeemsEnemyProduceParticularCommerceAgriculture Book:17 February to 30 April 1801 Source: 17 February to 30 April 1801
“The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.” IfsMenYearsHumansWellsMayMatterAgeBornHuman BeingsMoralImagineProgressProduceDiseaseMassHundredLaborDistanceSorryCeaseOld AgeRemoveGravityAgricultureFloatsRapids Author:Benjamin Franklin
“Cities originally surrounded by a wall can produce an urban population cut off from the surrounding fields and from agriculture altogether. At the same time, the greenbelt laws eliminate the possibility of the unchecked expansion of a city into a monstrous megalopolis. If there is a need for additional homes, a new city must be established.” IfsNeedsHomeLawCitiesCuttingFieldsPossibilityProduceWallPopulationAgricultureUrbanExpansionMonstrous Author:Yehuda Levi
“Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.” KnowsCultureCommunityShareMovementProduceFarmsFarmersAgricultureNew Cultures Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“For example, they have land. The government of Qatar wants to lease the Tana River delta, which is in Kenya, from the Kenyan government, so that they can produce food there. People in Kenya need food. We have people who have studied agriculture. Why is it that if we really need food, we cannot go into the delta and develop our own food?” PeopleIfsWantNeedsGovernmentLandExampleProduceRiversAgricultureKenyaLeaseDeltaQatar Author:Wangari Maathai