2 Quotes by Timothy A. Wise

I wrote this book because, with 30 years in the field, I wanted to understand why policy makers were ignoring the low-cost solutions all around them, demonstrated by their own small-scale farmers.

Humanity faces a continuing challenge to ensure that everyone can eat today, and climate change makes the challenge of eating tomorrow all the more daunting. But the way we are producing our food, on chemical-intensive, industrial-scale farms, is quite literally devouring the natural resources – soil, water, seeds, climate – on which future food production depends.