Simple stories about plants and people can become the seeds of greater curiosity, understanding and support for agriculture.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
"A Farm is not just a clever crop"
There is a very short but interesting opinion piece, "Attack of the Really Quite Likable Tomatoes" in the Economist, reflecting on the latest statistics about biotech/GM crop adoption. In 2009, 14 million farmers planted 134 million hectares (the size of Peru!?) of ag biotech / GM crops in 25 countries. 90% of them were small and resource-poor farmers from developing countries.
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