Welcome to the Agroecologist Incognito blog. I am an agroecologist by training, and with this blog I hope to make an independent contribution to the discourse on agroecology and sustainable agriculture.
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it has already been decided
Plant pathologists are in agreement – GMO crops are safe and effective for controlling crop diseases and boosting yields. The only question is, why can’t they get their message through to the general public? Peter van Esse works on Asian soybean rust, which is a destructive soybean disease in Brazil that is held at bay …
smaller fleas
It was during smalltalk over a shared breakfast table on Amtrak that the man across from me began excoriating powdery mildew. He was a Colorado pot grower. His greenhouse operation held hundreds of plants, and the air circulating between his and the adjoining pot greenhouses was spreading the spores of the leaf parasitic fungus that …
the vision thing
Research sponsored by the US Department of Agriculture has made progress since the old days. The original model was for agricultural scientists to do research on field stations for the purpose of improving yields, and then hold up the results to farmers as the best methods for farming. However, when the new methods met the …