Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.
Interpretation
Infrastructure is essential for development and agriculture in Africa.
The quote emphasizes the critical role that infrastructure, particularly roads, plays in the development of Africa. By providing access to knowledge, resources, and markets, roads facilitate agricultural productivity and commerce, enabling farmers to innovate and thrive economically.
In practice
In a speech about economic development, one might say, 'As Norman Borlaug wisely noted, Africa needs roads to promote growth and innovation.'
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
We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life. For a decent and humane life, we must also provide an opportunity for good education, remunerative employment, comfortable housing, good clothing, and effective and compassionate medical care.
We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.
Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.
This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.
For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.
Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.
In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is changing and that humans are responsible for a substantial part of that - and that these changes are doing harm and will continue to do more harm unless we start to reduce our emissions.
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
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