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born 1960 South Africa

Jill Farrant (born 5 December, 1960 in Modimolle), professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Farmers are becoming more and more dispirited, and droughts are killing them.

The crops that we are eating [today] are highly genetically modified. Through conventional breeding, thousands of gene changes happened without us knowing that we were doing GM all along.

Without trying to be rude, they are very ignorant about the subject. Genetic modification of plants is probably the safest kind of GM, yet it is the most vilified one.

I want to cater to the subsistence farmer, the person who wants to make enough food to live

We should make agriculture part of the solution to our issues… the climate change problem is so huge everything should be on the table

In terms of what I want to do, Africa, Africa, Africa. We are a continent that’s reliant on rain for our crops: we are already a poor continent so we cannot put in a lot of irrigation.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jill Farrant (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.