Affluent Quote by Nina Fedoroff

“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of the land…

— 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…

— Nina Fedoroff

We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried.…

— Nina Fedoroff

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

— Nina Fedoroff

“With my simple engineering mind I was throughout optimistic and, therefore, carried the project through. I was naive enough to believe in its success.”

— 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…

— Nina Fedoroff

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

— Nina Fedoroff

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

— Nina Fedoroff

We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how…

— Nina Fedoroff

We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2…

— Nina Fedoroff

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

— Nina Fedoroff

There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to…

— Nina Fedoroff