"Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods."

God, Gods, Catastrophes, Despair, Spirits

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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."

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"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."

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"There are no miracles in agricultural production."

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"The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind."

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"Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world."

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"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."

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"Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply."

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"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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"Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history."

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