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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 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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