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?

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

If we don't rely on science to guide us, we might make the day for Whole Foods Market devotees, but it would have a devastating effect on the nutritionally poor and the world food supply.

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.

This incisive volume considers the impact of precautionary standards on international food security policies and explores its possible unintended consequences--including environmental degradation, the spread of disease, and a hungrier world.

Jon Entine is available for comment on his book Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?