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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

  Dark, Issues, Climate

  "Attacks paid for by big business are 'driving science into a dark era" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.

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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

  Thinking, Doctors, People

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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.

  Nina Fedoroff

  People, Water, Needs

  "Earth population 'exceeds limits'". news.bbc.co.uk. March 31, 2009.

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• Casi no hay alimentos que no estén modificados genéticamente. La modificación genética es la base de toda evolución. Las cosas cambian porque nuestro planeta está sometido a mucha radiación, lo que provoca daños en el ADN, que se reparan, pero dan lugar a mutaciones, que crean una mezcla lista de plantas entre las que la gente puede elegir para mejorar la agricultura.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Dna, Agriculture, People

  "An Advocate for Science Diplomacy" by Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2008.

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• Probablemente ya hay demasiada gente en el planeta.

  Nina Fedoroff

  People, Global Warming, Climate Change

  "Earth population 'exceeds limits'". news.bbc.co.uk. March 31, 2009.

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• Los nuevos métodos moleculares que añaden o modifican genes pueden proteger las plantas de enfermedades y plagas y mejorar los cultivos de forma más respetuosa con el medio ambiente y más allá de la capacidad de los métodos antiguos.

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  Add, Pests, Disease

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• Tenemos que seguir reduciendo la tasa de crecimiento de la población mundial; el planeta no puede soportar mucha más gente.

  Nina Fedoroff

  People, Support, Growth

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

  Nina Fedoroff

  Land, Grows

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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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  Taken, Agriculture, People

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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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  Technology, Civilization, Thanks

  "Engineering Food for All". www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.

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

  Nina Fedoroff

  Advice, Ears, Influence

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• Si todo el mundo se pasara a la agricultura ecológica, no podríamos mantener la población actual de la Tierra, quizá ni la mitad.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Support, Population, Half

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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

  Engineering, Example, Pests

  "Debating The Potential Danger Of Transgenic Weeds". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 25, 2011.

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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

  Race, Agriculture, Events

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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.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Art, Details, Different

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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.

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  Thinking, Generations, Gone

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• Abundan los mitos sobre los efectos nefastos de los alimentos modificados genéticamente para la salud y el medio ambiente, pero no han resistido el escrutinio científico. Y, aunque se han expresado muchas preocupaciones sobre el potencial de consecuencias inesperadas, los efectos inesperados que se han observado hasta ahora han sido benignos.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Unexpected, Environment, Benign

  "Engineering Food for All". www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.

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

  Nina Fedoroff

  Weed, Needs, Multiple

  "Debating The Potential Danger Of Transgenic Weeds". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 25, 2011.

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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

  Fall, Jumping, Stripes

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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

  Animal, Yield, People

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• India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Country, Opportunity, Engineering

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

  Nina Fedoroff

  Government, Overcoming, Scientist

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• Hemos domesticado los cultivos durante un período muy largo de tiempo, como decenas de miles de años. Y los cultivos - las semillas son transportadas. A veces, si son semillas muy pequeñas, se dispersan en los camiones. El polen viaja.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Years, Long, Sometimes

  "Can Science Be Used As A Diplomatic Tool?". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 18, 2011.

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

  Nina Fedoroff

  Environmental, Ends, Refugee

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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

  Energy, Climate, Needs

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