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Chemical companies 'misleading' gardeners over toxic pesticides
Sarah Bentley
29th June, 2011
Despite a surge of interest in organic gardening, green fingered consumers continue to favour toxic chemicals to combat pests. But are they being exploited by clever marketing and inaccurate labelling? Sarah Bentley investigates more...
The inside story on Monsanto and the glyphosate birth defect data
Claire Robinson
13th June 2011
The pesticide industry and regulators have repeatedly misled the public with claims that glyphosate is safe, says Claire Robinson. As a result, Monsanto's Roundup is used by gardeners and local authorities, in school grounds, and in farmers’ fields more...
Africa's Green Revolution 2.0: rejecting agribusiness, pesticides and GM greenwash
Chris Milton
26th May, 2011
A pioneering campaign is challenging industrial agriculture in Africa, returning food sovereignty to the people and empowering women to lead a new movement that rejects the 'pesticide and loan culture' of the first Green Revolution. Chris Milton reportsmore...
Organic farming – India's future perfect?
Nishika Patel, The Guardian
12th May, 2011
A budding interest in organic food offers farmers soaring incomes and higher yields, but critics say it's not the answer to India's fast-rising food demands more...
TAKE ACTION: Make a loaf of bread for the Real Bread Campaign
Matilda Lee
11th May, 2011
Dust off your old bread maker and get your hands dirty during Real Bread Maker Week from May 9 - 16more...
Environmental damage and human rights abuses blight global tea sector
William McLennan
13th April, 2011
Human rights violations have been reported at plantations in virtually all major tea producing countries, while tea growing itself has a profound effect on the local environment. William McLennan reports more...
Pesticide lobby resists moves to sanction 'deadly' paraquat substance
Keith Tyrell
April 7th, 2011
Experts want the weedkiller paraquat - poison of choice in many suicide attempts - to be added to a 'watch list' of dangerous substances. Why then is Syngenta fighting the proposals asks Keith Tyrell? more...
Medical profession 'oblivious' to role of chemicals in diabetes and obesity
William McLennan
22nd March,2011
US officials are beginning to take a greater interest in the reported links between the exposure to environmental chemicals, like Bisphenol A, with the development of diabetes and obesity more...
The film that stood up to banana giant Dole over pesticide poisoning (and won)
Tom Levitt
14th March, 2011
The documentary Bananas! highlighted plight of Nicaraguan banana plantation workers who brought a legal case in the US against the use of a banned pesticide DBCP by the Dole Food Company. Tom Levitt reports more...
Agroecological farming 'can double food production in Africa over next 10 years'
Tom Levitt
8th March, 2011
Low-input farming projects, not reliant on chemical fertilisers and pesticides, have brought significant increases in food production in Africa, south-east Asia and South America, according to a UN report more...
Tim Flannery: corporate chiefs should be jailed for bribery and wrongdoing overseas
Matilda Lee
9th March, 2011
Australia's climate change commissioner and author of new book Here on Earth talks to Matilda Lee about Gaia's true principles, the power of the internet and why legally binding climate treaties are pointless more...
The Ecologist February 1971: The Pesticide Fallacy
The Ecologist
14th February, 2011
Forty years ago this February Roy Bridger wrote The Pesticide Fallacy - outlining early concerns over certain pest control methods. But have things improved? more...
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What's the real environmental cost of the French baguette?
Carolyn Lebel
8th February, 2011
Water in France's 'breadbasket' - where much of the wheat used to make the iconic baguette is grown - is under threat from industrial agriculture, with excessive consumption and contamination by pesticides and nitrates. Carolyn Lebel reports... more...
Warriors of Qiugang: how one Chinese 'cancer village' rose up
The Ecologist
January 31st,2011
Watch the trailer for the Oscar-nominated film documenting how Chinese villagers challenged a powerful chemical company over pesticides and dye-factory pollution more...
Why you should think twice before eating bananas
The Ecologist
21st January, 2011
The Frontline Club holds a special London screening of acclaimed film - Bananas!* - exposing the scandal of pesticide use in banana cultivation more...
Behind the Label: Flea Powder
Pat Thomas
11th January, 2011
Flea powder probably isn't something you think often about. But with some frighteningly toxic ingredients you should: they can be deadly for you and your petsmore...
Leaked document exposes risks to bees and insects from Bayer pesticide
Tom Levitt
3rd January, 2010
US government scientists flag up risks to bees and aquatic insects from neonicotinoid pesticide that biotech giant Bayer are trying to gain approval for use by farmers more...
UK says it will ignore medical advice on pesticide-spraying
Tom Levitt
15th December, 2010
Public will not have to be notified when crops, fields or parks are being sprayed with pesticides potentially harmful to their health, despite warnings from the British Medical Association more...
Cotton is a cash crop, but buy organic and help farmers escape poverty
Eliza Anyangwe
7th December,2010
Buying organic cotton doesn't mean you are depriving a farmer in the developing world of food crops, says Eliza Anyangwe of Pesticide Action Network. Rather, it's one action every ethical consumer should take more...
CAMPAIGN PROFILE: Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)
Matilda Lee
1st December, 2010
From asthma and allergies, diabetes and reproductive problems to cancer and obesity, environmental degradation plays a role... HEAL ensures our voices on these issues are heard in Brussels more...
British Beekeepers' Association to stop endorsing bee-killing pesticides
Alison Benjamin, guardian society editor
17th November, 2010
Beekeepers' group ends commercial relationship with pesticide manufacturer whose product killed bees more...
Controversial pesticides linked to 'total ecological collapse' of insects and birds
Dearbhla Crosse and Tom Levitt
16th November, 2010
Widespread use of insecticides affecting bee populations but also causing decline in numbers of birds, butterflies and moths, warns Dutch toxicologistmore...
Pesticide companies told to fund clean up of waterways
Tom Levitt
10th November, 2010
Coalition of environmental groups including RSPB and the National Trust urge government to introduce a levy on chemical industry and enforce bigger fines for polluters more...
Ban pesticide-use in public parks and school grounds - campaigners
Tom Levitt
25th October, 2010
Awareness of pesticide-use in public areas used by children is low but the health dangers demand our attention more...
The pesticides scandal: Government inaction is destroying lives
Georgina Downs
The new coalition Government must do what Labour failed to do in 13 years in power and finally introduce the necessary measures to protect people from pesticides, says Georgina Downs more...Members
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