38 Quotes by 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 difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

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

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better,

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.