(NaturalNews) The era of large-scale monoculture, with all of its toxic
pesticides and untested genetically modified organisms (GMOs), could
finally be coming to an end. Researchers from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) discovered recently that yield expansion rates
for most major industrial food crops are plateauing or even declining in
many areas of the world, a fact that further supports the case for a
return to small-scale, diversified agriculture grown organically.
Published in a recent issue of the journal Nature Communications,
these and other findings, including updated projections on future crop
yields, help obliterate the myth that modern, industrial methods of food
production (e.g., transgenic modification, pesticide use and
single-crop cultivation) have led to dramatic advancements in
agriculture, when it has actually accomplished quite the opposite.
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