If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

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.

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.

For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.

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

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

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