I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil.

No other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture.