Agriculture Quote by Vandana Shiva

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

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

“With good land-use management, water scarcity can even be a useful tool for containing the heedless sprawl of human habitation. Unfortunately,”

— David Owen

“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

Agricultural demand for water - probably the largest threat to freshwater species - continues to increase. ... Meanwhile, threats to terrestrial biodiversity - primarily…

— Indur M. Goklany

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

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

“In fact, wheat has been modified by humans to such a degree that modern strains are unable to survive in the wild without human…

— William Davis

The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more.”

— Tim Palmer

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

— David R. Brower

The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

— E. O. Wilson