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

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

Norman Borlaug · History

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Norman Borlaug

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

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Norman Borlaug

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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Norman Borlaug

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

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Norman Borlaug

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

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