on January 23, 2014 in World News
Industrial agriculture has reached its peak
Industrial agriculture has reached its peak say scientists; time for a return to small-scale organics The era of large-scale monoculture, with all of its toxic pesticides and untested genetically modified organisms (GMOs), could finally be coming to an end. Researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) discovered recently that yield expansion rates for most major industrial food crops are plateauing or even declining in many areas of the world, a fact that further supports the case for a return to small-scale, diversified agriculture grown organically. Published in a recent issue of the journal Nature… View Article
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