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Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist and humanitarian who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.

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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.

Fact, Granted, Leader, Leaders, Population, Taken

Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things.

Home, Years, Office, Month, Fashionable, Fertilizer

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

Food, Civilization, Adequate, Evolved, Known

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Peaceful, World, Misery, Human, Stomachs

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

Comprising, People, Percent, Population, Poverty

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.

Food, Humble, Small, Team, War

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

Justice, Man, Men, Social, Week

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

Affluence, Agriculture, Developing, Entirely, People, Privileged

To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.

Greatest, Lakes, Luxury, Perpetuity, Rivers

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

Adequate, Essential, Essentials, Food, Justice

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

Countries, Country, Five, Past, Rice, Years

Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.

Agriculture, Animal, Back, Cutting

Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries

Areas, Country, Impact, Rain, Remains, Revolution

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

Age, Despair, Disease, Drought, Remedies, Spirits

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

Insist, Lessons, Man, Men, Seems

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

Bread, Cultivate, Gmos, Guiding Principles, Justice, Time

We are 6. 6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.

Disappear, People, See, Volunteer, Volunteers

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

Agricultural, Agriculture, Miracle, Miracles, Production, Productions

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.

Agriculture, Country, India, Mostly, Population, Seventy

This is a basic problem, to feed 6. 6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.

Basic, Billion, Games, People, Problem

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