Quotes by Nina Fedoroff

Nina Fedoroff

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.

Animal

People

Yield

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

Civilization

Technology

Thanks

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture – from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

Agriculture

Events

Race

For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.

Art

Details

Different

I don’t know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

Government

Overcoming

Scientist

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn’t support the earth’s current population – maybe half.

Half

Population

Support

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

Ends

Environmental

Refugee

In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can’t be eaten by people – and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that’s because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.

Agriculture

People

Taken

In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We’re wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We’re now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.

Climate

Energy

Needs

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

Able

Lasts

Way

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Benign

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Dark

Details

Different

Disease

Dna

Doctors

Ears

Ends

Energy

Engineering

Environment

Environmental

Events

Example

Fall

Generations

Global Warming

Gone

Government

Grows

Growth

Half

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Issues

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Land

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Quotes by Nina Fedoroff

Nina Fedoroff

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture – from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.

I don’t know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn’t support the earth’s current population – maybe half.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can’t be eaten by people – and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that’s because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.

In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We’re wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We’re now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

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