"In many places in the developed world, we……" — 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."
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Nina Fedoroff
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25 Quotes by Nina Fedoroff
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There are probably already too many people on the planet.
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We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
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We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th…
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The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better,
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If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.
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Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
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I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.
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In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.
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India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.
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The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
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Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.
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As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever…
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