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In future irrigation schemes, water drainage and removal systems should be budgeted from the start of the project. Unfortunately, adding such costs to the original project often will result in a poor return on investment. Society then will have to decide how much it is willing to subsidize new irrigation development.

~Norman Borlaug

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Pricing water delivery closer to its real costs is a necessary step to improving use efficiency.

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Clearly, we need to rethink our attitudes about water and move away from thinking of it as nearly a free good and a God-given right.

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Central African farmers don't have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the animals - cattle, the horses, the burros and the mules. So draft animals don't exist, and farming is all by hand, and the hand tools are hoes and machetes.

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Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.

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The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development.

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I like the back country, wildlife and all of that, but it's wrong to force poor people to live that way.

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Abnormal stresses and strains tend to accentuate man's animal instincts and provoke irrational and socially disruptive behavior among the less stable individuals in the maddening crowd.

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Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the 'Population Monster.'

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There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: March 25th, 1914

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