Agronomist

🇫🇷Louis Pasteur

Science

1904–1989

"S’il est terrifiant de penser que la vie puisse être à la merci de la multiplication de ces infiniment petits, il est consolant aussi d’espérer que la science ne restera pas toujours impuissante devant de tels ennemis."

🇮🇳M. S. Swaminathan

Science

1925–2023

"Developing countries can leapfrog several stages in the development process through the application of bio-technology in agriculture"

🇸🇪Johan Rockström

Economics

b. 1965

"We are on average, moving towards four degrees warming this century. And we haven’t been in a four-degree warmer world for the past four million years. So it’s not as if it’s a place we know very well."

🇦🇷Richard Walther Darré

Politics

1895–1953

"The unity of blood and soil must be restored."

🇯🇵Masanobu Fukuoka

Philosophy

1913–2008

"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."

🇧🇬Aleksandar Stamboliyski

Politics

1879–1923

"I am neither a Serb nor a Bulgarian, I am a South Slav."

🇺🇸Norman Borlaug

Politics

1914–2009

"There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort."

Justus von Liebig

Education

1803–1873

"The acquisition of a new truth is like the acquisition of a new sense, which renders a man capable and recognizing a large number of phenomena that are hidden from another, as they were from him originally."