65 Quotes by Norman Borlaug

We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation, if we permit future famines.

If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.

It's amazing how often campaigners in rich countries think poor people don't get backache.

Roads are essential to any type of agricultural development.

Pricing water delivery closer to its real costs is a necessary step to improving use efficiency.

Clearly, we need to rethink our attitudes about water and move away from thinking of it as nearly a free good and a God-given right.

Central African farmers don't have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the animals - cattle, the horses, the burros and the mules. So draft animals don't exist, and farming is all by hand, and the hand tools are hoes and machetes.

Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.

The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development.