Quotes by Raj Patel

Raj Patel

A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.

Hurt

New York

Oklahoma

A recent review of different agricultural options for the future was conducted by a panel of experts. The scientists posed the question: How are we going to feed the world when there are nine billion people on it, as there will be by 2050? And the answer they came up with was industrial agriculture won’t work and genetic engineering won’t work and the solution is going to be sustainable, and going to ecological kinds of farming that are based on local environmental conditions that work with local ecosystems available to develop a richer kind of farming technology.

Environmental

People

Technology

Agricultural sustainability doesn’t depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of ‘agriculture.’ What sustainability depends on isn’t agri- so much as culture.

Agriculture

Believe

Food

All of human history is about the going from sudden fat years to the sudden lean years. We’ve always had good times and bad, and we’ve had ways of managing the bad times. We have ways of insulating ourselves, making ourselves less sensitive for the bad times by having things like grain stores, for example. Pretty much every civilization that’s lasted for any reasonable length of time has some food management principles behind it. But what’s been happening over the past thirty years is it’s failed – the insurance policy.

Good Times

Management

Past

By the end of the 1960s, the United States owned more than half of the Indian rupee money supply, and that had been acquired through food aid. So I think it’s very interesting to see the very long history of how sovereignty and food go together. When some countries remove another country’s ability to feed itself, it is a very powerful tool. Imperialist countries, like the United Kingdom, like the United States, have used it for centuries.

Country

Powerful

Thinking

Exporters monitor economic and political policies to the developing world, but the consequences of that have been to make developing countries far more sensitive to the constant fluctuations. Developing countries are not always allowed to support their farmers in the same way as the U.S. or Europe is. They’re not allowed to have tariff barriers. They’re forced, more or less, to shrink their social programs. The very poorest people have fewer and fewer entitlements. The consequence of this has been that there’s been a chronic increase in the vulnerability of those economies to price shocks.

Country

People

Political

Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.

Luxury

May

Rich

Food sovereignty… is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

Conversation

Ends

Hunger And Poverty

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.

Apples

Environmental

Junk

Generosity makes us happiest. We’ll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I’m connected to everyone I disappear… in being excellent you lose yourself. And when you’re connected to everyone, that’s the best thing that can happen.

Generosity

Losing Yourself

People

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Quotes by Raj Patel

Raj Patel

A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.

Agricultural sustainability doesn’t depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of ‘agriculture.’ What sustainability depends on isn’t agri- so much as culture.

Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.

Food sovereignty… is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.

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