Congratulations to Pamela Ronald, a UC Davis plant pathology professor, on winning one of this year’s Science in Society Journalism Awards, sponsored by the National Association of Science Writers. The award is for a column Ronald wrote for the Boston Globe last year, and which was based in part on her wonderful book, Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetic and the Future of Food, co-authored with her husband Raoul Adamchak.
Ronald and Adamchak, who is an organic farmer, reject the dogma that only a narrow-minded organic approach to agriculture can be sustainable. Instead, they suggest that “a judicious blend” of the best “organic” attitudes regarding soil health and respect for biodiversity on one hand and the best of new technologies and methods such as biotechnology and integrated pest management on the other, is the “key to helping feed the world’s growing population in an ecologically balanced manner.”
Read the Boston Globe column for a quick summary. But, I very highly recommend the book as well.
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I for one am more than a little concerned with the approach to market domination displayed by the big evil company called Monsanto ..there has to be a better approach to feeding the world than taking over full responsibilty for all of agriculture and every living thing in the name of control it feels too much like government..oh thats right the FDA is where the double dippers go from the big evil company isn't it? Where are the monopoly police?
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