Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development

This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.