| Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? Contributor(s): Entine, Jon (Editor), Barfield, Claude (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0844743615 ISBN-13: 9780844743615 Publisher: AEI Press OUR PRICE: $55.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Agronomy - General |
| Dewey: 363.179 |
| LCCN: 2010035739 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.24" W x 9.02" (0.82 lbs) 169 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |