This app set out to reduce pesticide use. How did it end up helping sell the very products it vowed to fight against?
In FERN’s latest story, published with WIRED, reporter Stephen Robert Miller unpacks the story of Plantix, an app that promised to change the lives of poor farmers in places like India and Africa by allowing them to instantly diagnose disease and pests in their crops. But as the company grew, supported by venture capital funding,… » Read More
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