Adaptation Quote by Cary Fowler

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to…

— Cary Fowler

2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. We can classify our crops into those which are climate resilient and those which are climate sensitive.…

— M. S. Swaminathan

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that…

— Paul Watson

Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to…

— Cary Fowler

“if you have low crop diversity, you will run into problems and require inputs, which means more technology. In the meantime, nature’s going to…

— Judith D. Schwartz

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

— David R. Brower

More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.

— Charles Eisenstein

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to…

— Cary Fowler

The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of…

— Vandana Shiva

I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about losing it in the…

— Cary Fowler

Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No.…

— Wes Jackson