Agriculture Quote by Paul Polman

If we tackle deforestation in the right way, the benefits will be far-reaching - greater food security, improved livelihoods for millions of small farmers…

— Paul Polman

Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.

— Johan Eliasch

One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods - it's a…

— Gisele Bundchen

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

— Ramez Naam

“What one gains in technique can lead to deforestation in the writing that is both good and bad. Keep the energy and the willingness…

— Nancy Zafris

Creating mechanisms for ending deforestation and promoting regeneration of the environment is one of the most effective ways of achieving net-zero emissions.

— Guilherme Leal

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

If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much…

— Ramez Naam

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

Less land is being converted into agriculture globally in part because farmers are growing more food on less land.

— Michael Shellenberger

We have to devise ways to lower the cost of production and reduce the risks involved in agriculture such as pests, pathogens, and weeds.

— M. S. Swaminathan

We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer