the loss of some insects is inevitable. But by minimising the amount of farmland and by using fertilisers and pesticides more cautiously and efficiently, we can reduce these impacts. There are many solutions in the realm of biotechnology that help us use agrichemical inputs sensibly: we can engineer crops that are naturally more resistant to pests and disease so we need fewer pesticides; we can make more productive crops so that we need less land to grow our food; we can use scanning technologies to pinpoint exactly where we need to add fertilisers, and where we’re wasting our resources.
