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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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