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Doug Gurian-Sherman, “Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops”, Union of Concerned Scientists, April 2009. Another illustration of this comes from a study of results in North America, which found that, after the switch to genetically modified varieties, the yield of soya fell by between 1 percent and 19 percent, with a typical reduction of about 10 percent (the yield from some maize, engineered for pest resistance, rose very slightly, but in the case of oilseed rape, the study found a 7.5 percent reduction): Hugh Warwick and Gundula Meziani, “Seeds of Doubt: North American Farmers’ Experience of GM Crops”, The Soil Association, 2003, chapter 4, available at http://tinyurl.com/nk9ns3n . See also Ricarda A Steinbrecher and Antje Lorch, “Feed the World?”, The Ecologist, November 2008, pp 18–20.

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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