We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

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

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

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.

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.

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.