Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

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.

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

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

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.