Agriculture Quote by Jeremy Grantham

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food

— Albert Allen Bartlett

To put it bluntly, we now need to reverse course. We need more highly skilled small farmers in more places all across America -…

— Michael Pollan

... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise…

— Samuel Alexander

Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

— Armand Hammer

...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and…

— Richard Heinberg

Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to…

— Vinod Khosla

In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage. Food is…

— Lester R. Brown

If commodity prices are no longer going up then food prices in the grocery store will no longer go up, at some point.

— Matt Martin

American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going…

— Wendell Berry

“To think of food as a weapon, or of a weapon as food, may give an illusory security and wealth to a few, but…

— Wendell Berry

Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement

— Norm Coleman

A lot of American companies are now moving into Iraq. Iraq now has Pizza Hut, Subway, Taco Bell and Popeye's fried chicken. So, great,…

— Jay Leno