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Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?
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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Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?
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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Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?
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.
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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Introduction Jon Entine Part I: Perspective Chapter 1: European Pesticides and Herbicides int eh Crosshairs Euros Jones Chapter 2: The Problems with Precaution Jonathan H. Adler Part II: Case Studies Chapter 3: The Case of Atrazine Jon Entine Chapter 4: The Tart Cherry: Pesticides and Precaution Mark Whalon Chapter 5: Unintended Consequences: Dangerous Misconceptions about Public Health Insecticides, the Environment, and Human Health Richard Tren Part III: Precautionary Politics Chapter 6: Precaution, Custom, and the World Trade Organization Claude Barfield Chapter 7: Feeding a Hungry World: Opportunity and Obligation for U.S. Agriculture Douglas Nelson and Alexander Rinkus Index About the Authors
What People are Saying About This
Bob Stallman
Crop Chemophobia should be required reading for policymakers. Our greatest challenge in the next forty years will be to feed billions more people on our planet with the same land resources we now use. As this important book demonstrates, we need to have science-based discussions about how to accomplish this. In the decades ahead, the greatest risk of all may be blind adherence to the precautionary principle.
Mike Adams
Many consumers today rely on sensationalized media reports to form their opinions on food production. Crop Chemophobia does an excellent job of going beyond the emotional debate over the use of crop inputs. Those concerned with a a growing world population and food insecurity should look closely at the consequences of removing a vital tool of food production.
Mike Johanns
Crop Chemophobia offers a science-based consideration of the impact of agricultural technology and highlights the need to give more thought to the principles guiding the regulation of food production. This is more than an academic debate; it could save lives.
Ian Denholm
By placing science about scaremongering, this book should stimulate a more infromed and balanced debate on the importance of pesticides in meeting the challenges posed by population growth an da changing climate.
W. Daren Coppock
Timely and important, this book is a call to action. We cannot afford to allow a narrow, technology-averse agenda to saddle our global food-production system with constraints that are costly and scientifically unwarranted—not when we face the challenge of doubling food production in the next four decades to meet expected demand.
