“When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.” Quote by Nigel Farage
“Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.” AbilityTechnologyProduceDependsCivilizationThanksExpandingScience And Technology Author:Nina Fedoroff
“I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.” KnowsGovernmentKnow HowPositionScientistOvercoming Author:Nina Fedoroff
“In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.” WayAbleLastsCenturyEvolutionGenes Author:Nina Fedoroff
“India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.” CountryOpportunityLeaderIndiaInstitutionsEngineeringOther CountriesGenetic Engineering Author:Nina Fedoroff
“The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.” InfluenceAdviceEarsAdviser Author:Nina Fedoroff
“Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.” NeedsWeedMultipleHerbicides Author: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.” PeopleWorldAnimalAround The WorldDietsYieldCropsProteinRobustAffluent Author:Nina Fedoroff
“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.” KindThreeRaceEventsSixPlantPopulationBillionsAll KindsAgricultureTechnologicalBreedingFertilizerMechanization Author:Nina Fedoroff
“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.” PeopleTakenWonderfulSourcePlantAgricultureMutationGenomeGenetic Mutation Author:Nina Fedoroff
“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.” WorldNeedsEnergyRealizingWasteClimateShipsAround The WorldCalories Author:Nina Fedoroff