As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

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.

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

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.

Food is the place where you begin.

The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.

You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.