More productive, sustainable and environmentally friendly agriculture will require ideas and practices from many different agricultural traditions. The polarised debate over GM - exemplified by measures like California's Proposition 37, which would require GM food to be labelled as such - does little to advance that cause.
Future farms need to use every trick in the book - opinion - 11 October 2012 - New Scientist.
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