New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentall….

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 ….

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 a….

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….

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 demandin….

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

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people..

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better..

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice..

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides..

There are probably already too many people on the planet..

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology..

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yie….

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too..

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agricultu….

Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. An….

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions..

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 ov….

Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are….

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 ….

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….