Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780844743615)

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.

Author: Jon Entine
ISBN-10: 0844743615
ISBN-13: 9780844743615
Publisher: AEI Press
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2011
Pages: 169
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.24w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 301