The current industrial agriculture system promotes the reliance on agrochemicals,
both synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, while neglecting to consider their negative
effects on the economy of local communities, the human health and the environment.
The long term use of high levels of agriculture inputs to boost crop yields have made
it difficult to sustain the same rate of yield growth, and yields are becoming stagnant.
Moreover, increased intensity of land use has led to increasing input requirements in
order to sustain current yield gains