Carolina Favre is a new member of the project team. Trained as a geographer at the University of Buenos Aires, she will explore historical patterns of adoption of agricultural innovations.
Carolina will focus on the adoption of Bt maize, a variant of maize, genetically altered to express the bacterial Bt toxin, which is poisonous to insect pests. In the case of maize, the pest is the European Corn Borer. The European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis, destroys corn crops by burrowing into the stem, causing the plant to fall over.
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