Chasing the Red Queen The Evolutionary Race Between Agricultural Pests and Poisons /
In the race to feed the world’s seven billion people, we are at a standstill. Over the past century, we have developed increasingly potent and sophisticated pesticides, yet in 2014, the average percentage of U.S. crops lost to agricultural pests was no less than in 1944. To use a metaphor the field...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-520-5 |