Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
I like the back country, wildlife and all of that, but it's wrong to force poor people to live that way.
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.
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.
Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.
In my Nobel lecture, I suggested we had until the year 2000 to tame the population monster, and then food shortages would take us under. Now I believe we have a little longer.
