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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Central government

• Full title: Crop Chemophobia
• Subtitle: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?
• Author: Jon Entine
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 169
• EAN: 9780844743615
• ISBN: 0844743615
• ID: 04942645
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Weight: 372 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 162 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. February 2011

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