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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.

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Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.

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Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

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

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If some consumers believe that it's better from the point of view of their health to have organic food, God bless them. Let them buy it. Let them pay a bit more.

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These places I've seen have clubbed my mind - they are so poor and depressing. I don't know what we can do to help these people, but we've got to do something.

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If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.

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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.

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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: March 25th, 1914

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