... study of the effects that choosing a certain rice seed genotype had on its surrounding environment, and eventually the economy of an entire region. Rice is a seven thousand year old crop that is an integral part of the diet and economy of the Filipino people. The fertile land and climate make the crop desirable to grow. Certain farmers in the country were once given a high-yielding variety of rice seed in order to increase their output. This new variety of rice required that insecticides be sprayed on it to kill the natural predator to the crop, brown plant hoppers. Unbeknownst to the farmers was that the insecticide would kill all insects on the crops, even the natural predator of the brown plant hoppers. With its enemy dead, brown plant hopper eggs were allowed to mature without any natural enemy to prevent its population growth. As their population grew, they ...

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