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Recent years ecological food is becoming more and more popular. Society wants to eat healthy products, of known origin and free of harmful chemicals that have an impact on our health. Where to get such food? The answer is simple – you should ask the source, which in this case are farmers. Despite the demand for ecological products is large, only a few producers decide to grow ecological ...
Seeds play a role in larger issues like biodiversity, farmers’ rights, control of the food system and use of agricultural chemicals, which many independent breeders try to avoid or reduce by breeding natural resistance into crops themselves. Kloppenburg emphasizes that the open-source movement is not about genetically modified organisms; patents can affect all crops, ...
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Many of the increasing populations are Arctic breeding geese that can cause serious crop damage at their wintering and staging areas, while in some cases their increased populations may also affect sensitive natural vegetation at their breeding grounds. ...