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.
Interpretation
Food security is a critical issue often overlooked by those in power, despite widespread hunger.
This quote highlights the irony and tragedy of global hunger, emphasizing that while many leaders overlook the issue of food scarcity, a significant portion of the world's population suffers from hunger. It serves as a call to action to address the disparity between abundance and need, urging leaders to prioritize food security and social justice.
In practice
During a speech at a global summit, the quote can be used to highlight the need for policies addressing food insecurity.
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.
Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.
This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.
When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already_x000D_ know my music.
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.
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