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Development Economist
Cornell University |
| "Hunger is a perpetual state until you give people the means to take care of themselves. Very simple."
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President
Bread for the World |
| "We are not in the process of setting up an eternal welfare system. What we're trying to do is solve the problem of world hunger by letting people be more productive. Once they become more productive, there won't be any going back to hunger, it'll be fixed for good."
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Development Economist
Stanford University |
| "I believe the question is how can we create jobs and incomes for a billion people who are poor, who don't want our charity, who want to be invested in so they can solve their own problems? That's an investment question, not a charity question. And it's going to take a lot of people doing sensible things."
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World Food Prize Laureate 2001 |
| "This widespread poverty and hunger is providing the justification and, in some cases, it's providing direct support for international instability, including terrorism."
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Social Scientist
CIMMYT |
| "When you are hungry you cannot afford to respect or see the beauty of things. Your priority is to survive, you cannot afford to conserve the environment for your children because they might die next year because they are malnourished."
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Chief Legal Officer
CIMMYT |
| "In fifteen years of being a lawyer, I never had a client come to me and say I'd like you to help me with something where I could save thousands of lives."
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Khomani San Tracker |
| "The Hoodia plant has always been part of our tradition. It is vital to our culture. We pay great respect to it."
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Khomani San Traditional Leader |
| "The life of the bushmen is not the same as it was before."
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World Food Prize Laureate 1995 |
| "If you want the market to really regulate things, then let the market be and not allow government intervention, including subsidies. We have to get rid of the subsidies. You cannot have the market forces work and then you come from behind the scene and give huge agricultural subsidies, when at the same time it's forbidden for the developing countries."
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Plant Scientist
KARI |
| "You can change people’s livelihood just by changing a variety, or showing them how to manage their farm well, or how to harvest water. It has such an impact."
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Monsanto representative for Africa |
| "In the 21st century - the age of cell phones and Internet, and all that - for people to die of hunger, it's just abominable, it's wrong."
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Farmer |
| "Even if you have money, there's nothing to buy. People starve, they even die, for lack of food."
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Director
Lagrotech Seed Company |
| "I think political stability, peace, should be the most important parameter so that we can work on development, on food, on research, and so on."
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Plant Pathologist
AHFBI |
| "There's a holistic approach that needs to be put in place, but we cannot devalue the importance of improved seeds because they are becoming the engine that's driving the system into productivity."
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Hunger Program Director
City of Belo Horizonte |
| "I believe that we will be able to win this war on hunger, this war on poverty, and I believe that this war is worthwhile for all of us to invest in, for my daughter, Beatriz, for all the children."
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MST Camp Coordinator |
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Organic Farmer
University of California, Davis |
| "It has always seemed to me that organic agriculture is the best solution to address the problems of agriculture in this country, and in third world countries as well." |
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Law Professor and IPR Specialist
Stanford University |
| "Very poor farmers tend to exchange their seeds at the end of every crop year, share them with their neighbors and then they have them for next year's planting. You do not want an intellectual property system which, even though it might help them get better seeds, prevents them from doing that." |
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Agronomist
University of California, Davis |
| "If these people make a mistake and their crops fail, we are not talking about less food, we are talking about the difference between life and death." |
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Hunger Activist and Author |
| "When it comes to hunger it is not the percentage that counts. It is the number of people that go to bed hungry." |
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Plant Pathologist
Cornell University |
| "It is very difficult for the women to become good participants in the field school. They are so overworked and overwhelmed that they are denied educational opportunities. Improving women and girls' education has to be taken seriously in improving food security." |
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DISCLAIMER: The interviews on this Web site were all conducted between 2002 and 2004 for the film SILENT KILLER.
The opinions the interviewees express are theirs alone and do not necessarily represent those of the producers of SILENT KILLER,
nor of other interviewees, nor of KCTS Television. The interviews have been edited for length and translated into English where needed.
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