What happens when a country forces farmers to go all-organic? Sri Lanka, India prove powerful examples

What happens when a country forces farmers to go all-organic? Sri Lanka, India prove powerful examples

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What happens when a state or country forces organic production on all of its farmers? There are a couple of ...
Viewpoint: Scientific American article claiming pesticides harm beetles and earthworms is ‘more hype than substance’

Viewpoint: Scientific American article claiming pesticides harm beetles and earthworms is ‘more hype than substance’

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I picked up a Scientific American that came last August and thumbed my way to page 12, where alarm bells ...
Viewpoint: Why criticism of the Green Revolution is misplaced

Viewpoint: Why criticism of the Green Revolution is misplaced

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The wheat varieties developed by Norman Borlaug and his Mexican team [during the Green Revolution] swept over Asia in the ...
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Viewpoint: Court-ordered dicamba weedkiller ban could fuel new legal strategy to restrict Bayer’s Roundup

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On June 3, 2020, a panel of three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San ...
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We depend on bees for 1/3 of our food? Pesticides threaten bees? Farmer challenges pollinator myths

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.... [W]ithout [bee] pollination efforts, the world would still have plenty of food .... The vegetables we eat don’t require ...