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Academics and the ‘easy button’: lessons from pesticide resistance management
The siren call of easy solutions to socio-agricultural problems is often studied as a reflection of anthropocentric ideologies espousing faith in...
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Chemical, ecological, other? Identifying weed management typologies within industrialized crop** systems in Georgia (U.S.)
Since the introduction and widespread adoption of chemical herbicides, “weed management” has become almost synonymous with “herbicide management.”...
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Agroecological management of spontaneous vegetation in Bachajón’s Tseltal Maya milpa: a preventive focus
In recent years, a great deal of evidence has accumulated on the health risks and environmental impacts of some herbicides. Both conventional...
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Superweed amaranth: metaphor and the power of a threatening discourse
This paper analyses the use of metaphor in discourses around the “superweed” Palmer amaranth. Most weed scientists associated with the US public...
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Regulations Matter: Epistemic Monopoly, Domination, Patents, and the Public Interest
This paper argues that regulatory agencies have a responsibility to further the public interest when they determine the conditions under which new...
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A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous...
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An Ecological Context
Literary formalism, incorporating structuralist ideas developed by the Prague Linguistics Circle, proposes that literature is not the effect of an...
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GMOs and Sustainable Agriculture
The introduction of genetically engineered crops in agriculture in the mid-1990s has been heralded as the advent of the Second Green Revolution....
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GMOs and Human and Environmental Safety
The 50-year anniversary of the first 1972 laboratory demonstration of transgenesis resulting in biotechnology (or Biotech for short), provides an...
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Structuralism, Vitalism, and Bioengineering
Genetic manipulation (bioengineering) is implicit to the current paradigm of modern biology. Concerns raised about the technology have focused...
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Domestication, crop breeding, and genetic modification are fundamentally different processes: implications for seed sovereignty and agrobiodiversity
Genetic modification (GM) of crop plants is frequently described by its proponents as a continuation of the ancient process of domestication. While...
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Manipulated Evolution and Artificial Life
Since the 1970s, laboratory methods have been developed in molecular biology that allow for the manipulation of the DNA sequences of genes or the...
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How farmers “repair” the industrial agricultural system
Scholars are increasingly calling for the environmental issues of the industrial agricultural system to be addressed via eventual agroecological...
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Ethics and Environmental Risk Assessment
InRisk assessment its most common form, environmental riskEnvironmental risk assessment is an adaptation of consequentialist ethical theory. Hazards...
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Genetic Modification (GMOs), Plants
Plants have long been genetically modified via traditional crop techniques or via selection by humans with the aim of increasing the production of...
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Improving conservation outcomes in agricultural landscapes: farmer perceptions of native vegetation on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
With agriculture the primary driver of biodiversity loss, farmers are increasingly expected to produce environmental outcomes and protect...
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Non-safety Assessments of Genome-Edited Organisms: Should They be Included in Regulation?
This article presents and evaluates arguments supporting that an approval procedure for genome-edited organisms for food or feed should include a...