Sustainable Agriculture Quotes

• A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Agriculture, People

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• The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Civilization, Agriculture

  "Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition".

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• A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.

  Wendell Berry

  Agriculture, People, Doe

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• To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested in sustainable agriculture, environmental issues, human rights, and my interconnectedness in the web of life. It is a great pleasure for me to find products and practices that have a positive effect on living beings and the environment, rather than a negative one.

  Vesanto Melina

  Rights, Practice, Web Of Life

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• When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do that?' Because sometimes it is the safest, cheapest and most effective technology to advance sustainable agriculture and enhance food security.

  Pamela Ronald

  Technology, Agriculture, People

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• The sanctuary would be the epicenter for the foundation. We'll have think tanks there. It's going to be a really, really amazing place. As an educational home base, we will also focus on the development of sustainable agriculture initiative. It's a huge project but one I am exceptionally passionate about.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Educational, Home, Thinking

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• The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite.  The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable.  There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.

  Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

  Country, Strong, Technology

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