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"Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past."
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"A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief."
"So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced."
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"Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods."
"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."
"Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless."
"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."
"The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind."
"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."
"Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply."
"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."
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