We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of … - Nina Fedoroff

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

We should build respect and understanding between the diverse cultures of the world. We should help construct communities where people of different backgrounds can live together as neighbors. Freedom is something for which we must fight, not by limiting it but by strengthening it.

Nina Fedoroff

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

Grow, Needs, People, Seven, Water

Same Author Quotes

We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.

Climate, Conversation, Dark, Era, Issues

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

Advice, Ears, Good, Influence, Science

We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.

Doctors, People, Saying, Think, Thinking, Treated

New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

Add, Benign, Disease, Older, Pests

Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.

Benign, Concerns, Dire, Environment, Scientific, Unexpected