Yet unqualified environmental groups and European bureaucrats are obsessed with agricultural pesticide safety, basing their assumptions on unjustified fear and anxiety.

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This sterile desert has nothing to offer -- except perhaps a tiny bit of the thousands of tons of agricultural pesticide applied to the corn, way back at planting time, that makes its way to the pollen collected by the bees, which is stored and eaten later.

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Mexico City native Ricardo Rodriguez Saavedra is the director of De La Chinampa a tu Mesa, an organization devoted to restoring Xochimilco's cultural heritage by connecting the public with the chinampas' pesticide-free agricultural producers.

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In collaboration with Zimbabwe's Institute for Agricultural Engineering, she tested diatomaceous earth against a common organophosphate pesticide in three of Zimbabwe's regions, and on three crops: sorghum, maize and cowpeas.

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