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.
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.
In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.
Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
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