Re:Golden Rice meets food safety standards in three leading ...
by legulere on Saturday May 26, 2018 @03:37AM
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The BT-Gene just puts the production of pesticides into the plant. That doesn’t magically make them not pesticides anymore.
Some quotes from a UN report:
Smallholders manage over 80 per cent of the world’s estimated 500 million small farms and provide over 80 per cent of the food consumed in a large part of the developing world.
Moreover, multiple studies have found that smallholdings are relatively more productive per hectare than large-scale plantations (Feder 1985; Barrett 1993; Banerjee, Gertler and Ghatak 1998; Rosset 1999; Borras, Kay and Akram-Lodhi 2007) and are also more resource-efficient (Altieri and Koohafkan 2008).
https://www.ifad.org/documents/10180/666cac24-14b6-43c2-876d...
Except the BT gene is exactly the opposite of a pesticide-heavy monoculture. The point is to make spraying unnecessary. Do you usually just invert the reality of things that clash with your preferred narrative?
>Most of the food is still farmed by poor small scale farmers, which are often more efficient than large-scale farmers.
Curious about this claim, I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_productivity#Sour...:
I don't think any of these correlate with smaller farm size. Do you have any sources?