We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.
Nina FedoroffCivilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
Nina FedoroffEven 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.
Nina Fedoroff