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.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it.'
You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.
If we are allowed to do experiments on monkeys because we are superior to them in a certain way, then someone who is superior to me is allowed to do experiments on me.
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.
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