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by legulere 2951 days ago
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...