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
Interpretation
This quote highlights significant agricultural advancements that helped avert famine in southern Asia.
Norman Borlaug emphasizes the remarkable improvements in food production, particularly wheat, rice, and maize, in southern Asia over a short time period. This transformation not only showcases human ingenuity and scientific progress but also highlights the critical role of agricultural advancements in addressing food security challenges in regions that were once on the brink of widespread famine.
In practice
During a presentation on food security, you could use this quote to illustrate the importance of agricultural innovation.
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.
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We only know God in His works, but we are forced by science to admit and to believe with absolute confidence in a Directive Power-in an influence other than physical, or dynamical, or electrical forces.
If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
We need senators who have studied physics and representatives who understand ecology.
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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