Tracing responsibility for #honeybee losses in rural #Ukraine points to farmers and pesticide-treated #rapeseed fields. But whose practices really lie behind the short-term bid to increase #cropproductivity? And what do the historic uses of #agrochemicals tell us about their current weaponization? Iryna Zamuruieva via IWM - Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
Tracing responsibility for honeybee losses in rural Ukraine points to farmers and pesticide-treated rapeseed fields. But whose practices really lie behind the short-term bid to increase crop productivity? And what do the historic uses of agrochemicals tell us about their current weaponization?
Researchers investigated a new approach to optimize #photosynthesis in order to improve plants' ability to utilize sunlight, which could lead to an increase in #CropProductivity: http://go.tum.de/250425 🌾
#PlantScience #SustainableAgriculture #chloroplasts
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