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.
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.
