Roberto Clemente once said: "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth."

VOA: special.2010.04.11

It can ensure that poor,rural people, whose lives and livelihoods, depend on the earth's productive capacity, have the means to produce more and to produce it better, GDP growth generated by agriculture has been shown to be at least twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth in other sectors. In recent years, more attention is being paid to the importance of smallholder farms.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29