India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has. Nina Fedoroff Read Quote
As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain. Nina Fedoroff Read Quote
If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too. Nina Fedoroff Read Quote
Jumping genes are fundamental because they’re agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn – called Indian corn – that you buy in the fall. Nina Fedoroff Read Quote
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. Nina Fedoroff Read Quote
Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides. Nina Fedoroff Read Quote
I don’t know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions. Nina Fedoroff Read Quote
The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice. Nina Fedoroff Read Quote
We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We’re going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops. Nina Fedoroff Read Quote
If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn’t support the earth’s current population – maybe half. Nina Fedoroff Read Quote
