Crop Chemophobia : Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? Hardback
Edited by Jon Entine
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The Green Revolution of 1960s introduced herbicides, pesticides, and advanced agricultural technologies to third world countries-rescuing hundreds of millions of people from malnutrition and starvation and transforming low-yield, labor-intensive farming into the high-tech, immensely productive industry it is today.
Despite these stunning gains, critics of chemical farming remain vocal.
Recently, the European Union passed a ban on twenty-two chemicals-about 15 percent of the EU pesticides market-to begin in 2011.
In Crop Chemophobia, Jon Entine and his coauthors examine the "precautionary principle" that underlies the EU's decision and explore the ban's potential consequences-including environmental degradation, decreased food safety, impaired disease-control efforts, and a hungrier world.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:169 pages
- Publisher:AEI Press
- Publication Date:16/02/2011
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- ISBN:9780844743615
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:169 pages
- Publisher:AEI Press
- Publication Date:16/02/2011
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- ISBN:9780844743615