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>GMO is largely about implanting resistance against herbicides such as glyphosate or genes for the production of pesticides like the BT-gene. Both are there to support pesticide heavy monocultures of which we are seeing the negative effects unfolding.

Except the BT gene is exactly the opposite of a pesticide-heavy monoculture. The point is to make spraying unnecessary. Do you usually just invert the reality of things that clash with your preferred narrative?

>Most of the food is still farmed by poor small scale farmers, which are often more efficient than large-scale farmers.

Curious about this claim, I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_productivity#Sour...:

  Some sources of agricultural productivity are:
  -Mechanization
  -High yield varieties, which were the basis of the Green revolution
  -Fertilizers: Primary plant nutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium[5][6] and secondary nutrients such as sulfur, zinc, copper, manganese, calcium, magnesium and molybdenum on deficient soil
  -Education in management and entrepreneurial techniques to decrease fixed and variable costs and optimise manpower
  -Liming of acid soils to raise pH and to provide calcium and magnesium
  -Irrigation
  -Herbicides
  -Genetic engineering
  -Pesticides
  -Increased plant density
  -Animal feed made more digestible by processing
  -Keeping animals indoors in cold weather

I don't think any of these correlate with smaller farm size. Do you have any sources?

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The BT-Gene just puts the production of pesticides into the plant. That doesn’t magically make them not pesticides anymore.

Some quotes from a UN report:

Smallholders manage over 80 per cent of the world’s estimated 500 million small farms and provide over 80 per cent of the food consumed in a large part of the developing world.

Moreover, multiple studies have found that smallholdings are relatively more productive per hectare than large-scale plantations (Feder 1985; Barrett 1993; Banerjee, Gertler and Ghatak 1998; Rosset 1999; Borras, Kay and Akram-Lodhi 2007) and are also more resource-efficient (Altieri and Koohafkan 2008).

https://www.ifad.org/documents/10180/666cac24-14b6-43c2-876d...