Agriculture is a proven engine for poverty reduction. Conventional farming, also known as traditional farming or industrial agriculture, relies on chemical intervention to fight pests and weeds and provide plant nutrition. This farming systems include the use of systhetic chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and other continual inputs, concentrated animal feeding operation, heavy irrigation, intensive tillage, or concentrated monoculture production. Thus, conventional agriculture is typically highly resource-demanding and energy-intensive, but also highly productive. Conventional farming’s goal is to ensure food security, even if that can be achieved through genetically modified organisms (GMOs).