Long-term research plots have shown increases in wheat yield from controlling weeds and disease. Gains from plowing fallow fields were exceeded by the advent of chemical herbicides and fungicides.
Between 2000 and 2010, household spraying and insecticide-treated bednets prevented the deaths from malaria of an estimated 831,100 children in 43 countries, according to a recent model—almost 230 a day. Insecticide resistance in mosquitoes threaten these gains.
 |
Infographics | More... |
Viewpoint: The organic food industry is a $180 billion marketing fraud 
Is tilapia a human-made freak that we should avoid — or an evolutionary rockstar? 
How Wegovy and Ozempic could transform our food systems 
The increasingly bushy human family tree and five other paradigm-altering changes in our understanding of human evolution 
Blue soybeans? Orange wheat? How a gene-edited splash of color could make robotic weeding much easier 
How Freddie Mercury got his voice: It wasn’t his teeth 
Myth busting on pesticides: Despite demonization, organic farmers widely use them 
Viewpoint: Debunking organic food myths again… and again 
Curvy women advantage? Large buttocks may signal an evolutionary edge 
Out of Africa revisited: Where did humans migrate after leaving the continent? 
