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Ecophyto 2 – France tries to halve pesticide use. Again.
Like its failed predecessor, Ecophyto 2018, Ecophyto 2 aims to halve pesticide use in France during the coming decade. How will it fare? Peter Crosskey explores. […]
Like its failed predecessor, Ecophyto 2018, Ecophyto 2 aims to halve pesticide use in France during the coming decade. How will it fare? Peter Crosskey explores. […]
ARC2020’s Peter Crosskey spoke with French farmer Paul-Francois about taking on pesticide manufacturer Monsanto – and winning. […]
Despite the exaggeration and spin, oilseed rape yields are up, not down, in the UK. […]
Despite mounting scientific evidence, UK authorities have made an exemption for the bee killing pesticide. Peter Crosskey reports […]
As the French government and Swiss retailers, among many others, start to restrict glyphosate, is time up for the world’s most popular pesticide? […]
Guest opinion piece by Julia Sievers -of Agrarkoordination. This year, the EU will decide whether glyphosate – the best-selling pesticide worldwide – remains approved after 2015 for another 10 years. As a basis for this decision, German authorities – on behalf of the EU – have re-examined the risks of this pesticide. The German authorities argue in their assessment report that glyphosate is not dangerous and recommend a re-authorization. But the official assessment is extremely controversial. A fundamental problem is that the judgement of the authorities is based almost exclusively on studies of companies that produce their own glyphosate-based pesticides and therefore have a high self-interest in positive study results. In contrast to the assessment of the authorities and the industry studies, numerous studies of industry-independent scientists have give rise to more and more doubts about the safety of glyphosate and glyphosate-based pesticide. In addition to the adverse impacts on biodiversity, water, soil and some animal species, public attention has been paid to the health risks of the herbicide. There is scientific evidence, that Glyphosate causes cancer, […]
Walter Haefeker of the European Professional Beekeepers Association tells us why he’s concerned about TTIP […]
A cautionary tale on TTIP, Endocrine Disrupting pesticides and the precautionary principle. […]
Who pays for pesticide research and why? Peter Crosskey investigates. […]
How does the UK regulate pesticide use? Peter Crosskey takes a closer look. […]
Another massive campaign has halted the chemical giant’s efforts to overturn an EU wide 2 year moratorium on neonicotinoid pesticides. […]
Mass bee deaths have focused the mind in US, but efforts to introduce the Save America’s Pollinators Act (HR 2692) do not auger well. […]
Worrying trends in how pesticide safety is measured have been uncovered by Pesticide Action Network Europe. […]
The UK government has updated its CAP implementation timeline in preparation for a 2015 roll-out. […]
New research by Greenpeace provides damning evidence of just how prevalent pesticide exposure is for pollinators. […]
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