Nina Fedoroff Quotes

The Second Green Revolution, as the world's population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent.

To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

The agricultural potential of Africa is unlimited.

Farmers are farmers in the first place because they have the deep-seated instinct to raise crops, not to cut them back, not to leave the land unproductive.

I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.

All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If you took even a small amount of that money and put it toward organic research, I don't have any doubts you could match those yields.

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.

The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.

If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.

Let me tell you about a place where technology won't work. When you walk onto a farm and are standing on soil, there is no technology that is going to take that soil and transform it into something that is five times more productive.

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.