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…

- Nina Fedoroff

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

- Nina Fedoroff

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

- Nina Fedoroff

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…

- Nina Fedoroff

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

- Nina Fedoroff

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

- Nina Fedoroff

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

- Nina Fedoroff

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…

- Nina Fedoroff

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

- Nina Fedoroff