Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This was potentially world-altering technology. If successful, Strey says a little sheepishly in the clip, Plantix would “save the environment by using less pesticides.” million, this time with money from one of the largest retailers of pesticides in the world. Something potentially very big.

Pesticide 82

Pesticide Crop Agriculture Agriculture 82

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Mann calls them “wizards”–telling us that technology will come to our rescue. In self-defense, teach yourself about the economy and technology of food production and how industry adds to and alters food. In modern times, there’s a long tradition of techno-optimists or cornucopians–science writer Charles C.

Food 143

Food Pasture Livestock Poultry 143

World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mark Brooks, FMC VENTURES Mark Brooks, Managing Director, FMC VENTURES: “My supervillain is ScorchedFarm, who exposes the vulnerabilities of modern agriculture in the face of climate change. He manipulates weather patterns to bring on drought and extreme temperatures, summons pests that are resistant to pesticides, and degrades the soil.

Technology 59

Technology Marketing Finance Production 59

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Early warnings of the potentially damaging effects of industrial agriculture and food processing technologies upon planetary and human health provoked a vehement backlash.

Food 98

Food Seeding Farming Farming 98

Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

You described our industrial food system as insane and absurd. Case in point: The fertilizers and pesticides used on farms have to pollute our rivers, oceans, and drinking water. She was a happy and inspiring warrior against the forces of industrial agriculture. How could they not? And damn it, she was right.

Food 105

Food Ecology Farming Farming 105

The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

We’ve seen this in the digital technology sector. Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers.

Farmland 142

Farmland Food Seeding Fertilizer 142

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Washington’s response reflects the corporate capture of the US regulatory system,” said Fernando Bejarano, director of the Action Network on Pesticides and their Alternatives in Mexico. It’s designed to promote GMOs domestically and internationally, not to protect food safety or regulate a radical new technology.”

Maize 144

Maize Science Food Crop 144