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9780844743615: Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?
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ISBN 10 : 0844743615 ISBN 13 : 9780844743615
Editeur : AEI Press, 2011

Synopsis

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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À propos des auteurs

Jon Entine is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and an adviser to Global Governance Watch, a project that examines transparency and accountability issues at the United Nations, in nongovernmental organizations, and in related international organizations.

Claude E. Barfield is a resident scholar and the director of trade and science policy studies and technology policy studies at AEI. He is the author or editor of a number of books on trade and science policy, including the recently published Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization. In 1999, he coauthored Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization with Mark Groombridge. Before coming to AEI, he served in the Ford administration, on the staff of the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and as a co-staff director of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.

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Éditeur
AEI Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0844743615
ISBN 13 
9780844743615
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
169
Éditeur
Entine Jon
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