Risk of greatly increased use of pesticides, including biopesticides, demands investigating more natural means of integrated pest management

By quietly researching and developing biotechnological products before the impacts are known, those who have the greatest investments in the present modes of agricultural production could work to resist rather than to ...

There is a need to make agricultural biotechnology products available to family farms, not only to corporate farms. Agriculture is more sustainably done on the smaller scale of the family farm.

Factors influencing biopesticides use

The issue of disease control in farm animals has far-reaching implications and cost and benefits must be carefully examined.

Economic effects of herbicide resistance. How resistance develops and how its pathways can be used for crop improvement.

It is not necessarily size, but management sophistication that really makes a difference in the successful use of PST. Larger, more specialized operations are more likely to make effective use of this relatively sophisticated ...

This overview presents the main points presented by the speakers at the 1st Annual Meeting of the NABC in 1989 and the recommendations made the bye participants in the workshops.

Early regional adoption of herbicide tolerant crops may be beneficial to the region that uses new technology first.

Pre-introduction research into the economic and social impacts of new technologies play an important role by identifying institutional barriers to the equitable transfer of new technologies and by providing needed information ...