I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.

Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes.

Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.

The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring yield of commodities, to health and well-being of ecosystems and communities. Industrial agriculture has its roots in war. Ecological agriculture allows us to make peace with the earth, soil and the society.

The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.