"Children in India remain malnourished while foodgrains rot in our granaries. The key to this is proper management of our granaries.'

V Ramalingaswami
National Research Professor

"There's a big gap between scientific research and application. We have crude facts of science, locked up in laboratories and research institutes, but we cannot make them available and applicable for the common person.'

N Kochupillai
AIIMS, Delhi

"Water users associations, comprising genuinely concerned farmers, are far more likely to look after scarce water resources than our present government irrigation departments.

amrita patel
NDDB, Anand, Gujarat

"We have to look at environment as a whole, not only for the one concern like GMOs. Of course, it is a great risk. But then no technology is without risk. Therefore, it is important to undertake a proper risk assessment, and not to prevent the technology.'

Ismail Serageldin
Former vice president, World Bank