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There are probably already too many people on the planet.
Nina Fedoroff / Professor
Climate Change
Global Warming
People
Planet
Too Many People
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The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.
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Grows
Land
Cultivated
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I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.
Nina Fedoroff / Professor
Government
Overcoming
Scientist
Overcome
Dearth
Positions
Scientists
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The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
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Advice
Ears
Influence
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Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.
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Multiple
Needs
Weed
Resistant
Weeds
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If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.
Nina Fedoroff / Professor
Environmental
Doorstep
Ends
Refugee
More And More
Refugees
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If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.
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Farming
Half
Population
Support
Current
Organic
Switched
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In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.
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Able
Accelerate
Genes
Lasts
Way
Devise
Last Century
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India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.
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Opportunity
Country
Engineering
Genetic Engineering
Genetic
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We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
Nina Fedoroff / Professor
Decrease
Growth
People
Population
Rate
Support
Growth Rate
More People
Planet
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For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.
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Art
Details
Different
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Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
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Science
Technology
Ability
Accelerate
Civilization
Depends
Expanding
Produce
Science And Technology
Thanks
Efficiently
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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.
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Crops
Needs
People
Water
Rapidly
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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.
Nina Fedoroff / Professor
Affluent
Animal
Diets
People
Protein
Robust
Yield
World People Will
Feed
Crop
Demanding
Require
Richer
Sustain
Yields
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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 Fedoroff / Professor
Food Me People
Doctor
Demanding
Production
Treat
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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.
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Doctors
People
Thinking
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New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.
Nina Fedoroff / Professor
Add
Benign
Capability
Crops
Disease
Genes
Pests
Diseases
Environmentally
Improve
Methods
Modify
Plants
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We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.
Nina Fedoroff / Professor
Crops
Long
Seeds
Sometimes
Years
Time Long Sometimes
Carried
Domesticated
Long Period
Scattered
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Travels
Trucks
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Even 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 / Professor
Agriculture
Breeding
Events
Plant
Population
Race
Advanced
Ahead
Billion
Scientific
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We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.
Nina Fedoroff / Professor
Climate
Climate Change
Conversation
Dark
Issues
Organisms
Realistic
Change I Am Climate
Depressed
Genetically
Merely
Modified
Profoundly
Sliding
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One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.
Nina Fedoroff / Professor
Beneficial
Chemicals
Engineering
Example
Genetic Engineering
Insects
Methodology
Pests
Spectrum
Affect
Aspects
Broad
Controlling
For Example
Forth
Genetic
Previous
Remarkably
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Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.
Nina Fedoroff / Professor
Agents
Corn
Evolve
Fall
Familiar
Genes
Indian
Jumping
Organisms
Stripes
Dynamic
Fundamental
Motion
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In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.
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Agriculture
People
Taken
Change Food People
Wild
Eaten
Mutations
Picked
Plants
Sources
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In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.
Nina Fedoroff / Professor
Calories
Climate
Energy
Needs
Realizing
Waste
Twice
Wasteful
Developed
Developed World
Generating
Ruining
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We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in the grocery store got there, and we'd like to go back to what we think is a more natural way.
Nina Fedoroff / Professor
Farms
Generations
Gone
Thinking
Wonderful Things
Gotten
Grocery
Grocery Store
Natural Way
Store
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Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.
Nina Fedoroff / Professor
Benign
Effects
Environment
Scrutiny
Unexpected
Abound
Consequences
Concerns
Dire
Observed
Expressed
Foods
Genetically
Held
Modified
Myths
Scientific
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There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.
Nina Fedoroff / Professor
Agriculture
Causes
Damage
Dna
Evolution
Modification
Our Planet
People
Radiation
Ready
Results
Change Food People
Basis
Choose
Genetic
Genetically
Improve
Mixture
Mutations
Planet
Plants
Subjected
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