Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production. – Ralph Merkle

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences. – Ralph Merkle

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons. – Ralph Merkle