Occupation: Agriculturalist Birth: 1949
Not all of them, but certainly there's some really, really dramatic differences among apples. And what you learn if you have that number of varieties….
The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play ….
Most of us take seeds for granted. The fate of human kind is resting on these genetic resources: Seeds. So nothing could be more important..
Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international c….
At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the c….
Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To….
I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about losing it in the same way that w….
Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we don't, we'll face catastrophic consequence on a scale you c….
To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwe….
In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival..
You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity..