Nina Federoff speaks of her personal biography here at the beginning of this talk. Fascinating to her more about her.
PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS
Nina V. Fedoroff
AAAS President, Distinguished Visiting Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, and Evan Pugh Professor, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Fedoroff is a leading geneticist and molecular biologist who has contributed to the development of modern techniques used to study and modify plants. Under the administrations of Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama, she served as Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State and to the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi honorary societies. Her memberships include the Board of Trustees of the Library of Alexandria, Egypt, and the Board of Governors at the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter of the Los Alamos Laboratory.
Watch video of the President's Address by AAAS President Nina V. Fedoroff
NINA FEDEROFF WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN AAAS COMING OUT WITH A NO POSITION ON 37 WITHIN TEN DAYS OF THE VOTE NOV 6
AAAS STATEMENT
NINA FEDEROFF IN NEW YORK TIMES ON GENETIC ENGINEERING OF FOODS
FOOD prices are at record highs and the ranks of the hungry are swelling once again. A warming climate is beginning to nibble at crop yields worldwide. The United Nations predicts that there will be one to three billion more people to feed by midcentury.
Yet even as the Obama administration says it wants to stimulate innovation by eliminating unnecessary regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency wants to require even more data on genetically modified crops, which have been improved using technology with great promise and a track record of safety. The process for approving these crops has become so costly and burdensome that it is choking off innovation.
Commentary by Lappe on Nina Federoff In New York Times:
Civil Eats
York Times)BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGYFOOD POLICY
August 19th, 2011 By Anna Lappé
With all due respect, Nina Federoff’s New York Times op-ed reads like it was written two decades ago when the jury was still out about the potential of the biotech industry to reduce hunger, increase nutritional quality in foods, and decrease agriculture’s reliance on toxic chemicals and other expensive inputs that most of the world’s farmers can’t afford.
With more than 15 years of commercialized GMOs behind us, we know not to believe these promises any longer.
Around the world, from the Government Office of Science in the UK to the National Research Council in the United States, to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, there is consensus: in order to address the roots of hunger today and build a food system that will feed the future, we must invest in “sustainable intensification”—not expensive GMO technology that threatens biodiversity and locks us into dependence on fossil fuels, fossil water, and agrochemicals. And that’s never proven its superiority, even in yields.
I have set an intention to be part of a future topical lecture at the AAAS. I want to watch the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science closely when they meet in Boston.
This is the meeting where I met Dr.Robert Fraley, the father of Round Up Ready Technology.
Other points of view in science need to be heard within the AAAS.
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