What is the proper balance between crop protection and environmental and public health considerations? AEI scholar Jon Entine explores this question in a new edited volume, Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?

This event will discuss the European Union's recent consensus to institute new criteria that could ultimately blacklist about fifteen percent of the EU pesticides market used by the agricultural and pest control industries.

There's a persistent story that farming is on the edge of catastrophe in America and that's why they need safety nets that other people don't get. And the reality is that it's really a very healthy industry.

When champions of genetically modified crops come face to face with the organic lobby, any common goals often get drowned out.

Given the measured way in which the EPA has reversed many anti-science biases of the Bush administration, it's disturbing to read the broadside against chemicals in "Legally Poisoned," by UC Riverside professor Carl Cranor.

Advocacy journalists sitr up unwarranted hysteria over a weed-killer made to save farmers over $2 billion.

Banning pesticides may be an over-reaction and can mean the world's poor stay hungry.