CHURCHVILLE, VA—I was still mourning the loss of my friend, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug, at age 95, and reminiscing on his magnificent life when the news flashed across the wires that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. What a startling contrast!
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Dr. Borlaug literally saved a billion people from [...]
Presentation in Winnipeg to the Canadain Association of Agri-Retailers
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. . . . We are burdensome to [...]
Presentation in New Delhi, India for a Seminar on Pesticides: Myths, Realities, and Remedies
Dennis Avery
It is a tremendous privilege to be in India, a key site of the Green Revolution, to discuss pesticides, the modern miracle of high-yield agriculture, and the future of our world.
For thousands of years, mankind was constantly threatened by hunger [...]
Dennis Avery
It’s happened again. The food industry has once again allowed activists and headline-hungry journalists to turn the safest food system in human history into a house of horrors. Once again, there has been no effective answer or strategy on behalf of the food system to the unwarranted public attack.
The Mad Cow Media Circus [...]
Presentation to the Illinois Farm Bureau Commodity Conference: Is High-Yield Farming Worth Saving?
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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The large increase in world food needs during the next fifty years will amplify the consequences of any policies and practices that lower farm productivity. Today’s modern high-yield farming practices are continuing to change and improve in efficiency, safety, and sensitivity to the environmnet in direct proportion to our investments in agricultural research and [...]
