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By Alex Avery on February 10th, 2004

Comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency, On the Proposed Five-year Strategic Plan for the FSA

Comments to the USDA’s Farm Service Agency, On the Proposed Five-Year Strategic Plan for the FSA
Dennis Avery and Dr. Thomas Elam
Submitted February 10, 2004, in connection with the meeting of the agency’s external stakeholders at the Wyndham Hotel, 1400 M. St., NW, Washington, D.C.
The U.S. has recently returned to a policy emphasizing high subsidies for [...]

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By Alex Avery on February 10th, 2004

Presentation to the National Turkey Federation: The Moral Challenge of the 21st Century

Presentation to the National Turkey Federation: The Moral Challenge of the 21st Century
Dennis Avery
. . . farms obliterate empty places, ploughed fields vanquish forests, herds drive out wild beasts. . . and there are such great cities where formerly hardly a hut . . . everywhere there is a dwelling, everywhere a multitude. . . [...]

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By Alex Avery on February 04th, 2004

Who Will Produce the World’s Food (and Pork) in the Next Decade?

Presented at the Hyologisk 25th Anniversary Conference Braedstrup, Denmark
Alex Avery
February 4, 2004
A dozen years ago, I retired from the U.S. State Department-and began a mission to convince First World farmers they had more to gain from free farm trade than they did from continued heavy government subsidies.
The Bullish Demand Forecast for Farm Products and Pork
My [...]

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21st Century Consumer War: Mythical Organic Utopia versus High Yield Conservation
By Alex Avery on December 11th, 2003

21st Century Consumer War: Mythical Organic Utopia versus High Yield Conservation

Alex Avery
Presented December 11, 2003
National Agricultural Aviators Association
Reno, Nevada
For two decades, an epic war has engulfed society between those who look backward toward a fictional natural past – an organic utopia – and those who look forward through technology and science envisioning a sustainable future. This war has escalated over the last two decades, with [...]

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By cgfi on October 06th, 2003

Has America Already Lost High-Yield Agriculture?

Dennis T. Avery
America has had a proud two centuries of world leadership in high-yield agricultural research and technology. It stretches back to George Washington’s farming experiments and Abraham Lincoln signing the Morrill Act to create the land-grant colleges and agricultural experiment stations. It includes the hybrid seeds, mechanization, and pesticides that produce ample American ample food-while [...]

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By cgfi on July 29th, 2002

Engineering A Sustainable–and Sustaining–World Food Supply

Dennis T. Avery
This speech was given before the American Society of Agricultural Engineers in Chicago, IL
The Declaration for High-Yield Agriculture
On April 30, 2002, a new “Declaration in Support of Protecting Nature With High-Yield Farming and Forestry” was signed in Washington, D.C. The founding signers included two Nobel Peace Prize winners, a co-founder of Greenpeace, [...]

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By cgfi on June 26th, 2000

The World Really Needs High-Yield Ag: It Just Doesn’t Know it Yet!

Alex A. Avery
The Rev. Thomas Malthus’ famous question about whether humanity can continue to feed all the people was posed exactly 200 years ago.
It has taken us nearly all of that 200 years to be sure of an affirmative answer. Only recently have we been certain that the opening of the 21st century should see [...]

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By cgfi on May 21st, 2000

Dennis Avery’s UC Berkeley Commencement Address

Dennis T. Avery
Leading a 21st Century Global Triumph for the Environment
Commencement Address, University of California, Berkeley, College of Natural Resources,
May 21, 2000
” . . . farms obliterate empty places, ploughed fields vanquish forests, herds drive out wild beasts, sandy places are planted with crops, stones are fixed, swamps drained, and there are such great cities [...]

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By cgfi on March 28th, 2000

High-Yield Conservation: The Only Global Sustainability for the 21st Century

Alex A. Avery
Humanity faces a daunting task as we enter the 21st century: Feeding a larger, more affluent world a better diet while at the same time conserving wildlife habitat, biodiversity and ecological integrity.
The world is in the midst of the largest surge in global population in human history. Population growth rates peaked in 1996; [...]

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By cgfi on March 17th, 2000

Will the World Throw Away High Yield Agriculture?

Alex A. Avery
Speech to the National Potato Promotion Board, Denver, Colorado
The Rev. Thomas Malthus’ famous question about whether humanity can continue to feed all the people was posed exactly 200 years ago.
It has taken us nearly all of that 200 years to be sure of an affirmative answer. Only recently have we been certain [...]

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