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

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.

This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

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