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Remembering Henry Wickham, the bio-pirate who ended Brazil’s rubber monopoly

Remembering Henry Wickham, the bio-pirate who ended Brazil’s rubber monopoly

A recent piece in the Economist gushes over Embrapa, the public company whose ‘green revolution’ has helped turn Brazil into an agricultural powerhouse. Though it presents a one-sided view of GM crops, whose effect on health and livelihoods is a cause for deep concern, the article gives an excellent overview of Brazil’s rise as a […]

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