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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...
Pesticides and Pollinators: A future without bees
PAN UK’s Annual Rachel Carson Memorial Lecture looks at the role of pesticides in the decline of bees 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...
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...
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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...
Independent testing of pesticides in food in doubt after quango cull
Tom Levitt
14th October, 2010
Campaigners fear 'backward' step in pesticide regulation in UK after testing body scrapped as Government also confirms major budget cuts to Natural England and the Environment Agency more...
'Unnecessary' weedkillers could undermine efforts to protect bee population
Dearbhla Crosse
12th October,2010
New research encouraging gardeners to increase bumblebee populations by planting flowers could be undermined by the use of weedkillers and pesticides, Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT) warns more...
The shocking cost of US 'mega-dairies'
Jim Wickens
21st September 2010
With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business... more...
The shocking cost of US 'mega-dairies'
Jim Wickens
21st September 2010
With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business... more... Undercover investigation:The shocking cost of US 'mega-dairies'
Jim Wickens
21st September 2010
With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business... more...
‘Growing body of evidence’ links pesticides to bee decline
Ecologist
5th August, 2010
Government and retailers, including B&Q and Wyevale, under pressure to impose a ban on sale of pesticides linked to bee population decline following new research more...
How to campaign for better food
Zofia Walczak & Matilda Lee
29th June, 2010
Concerned about the state of your food? Here are some ways to tackle the problem at root - from community gardens to animal welfare more...
CASE STUDY: Growing coffee more sustainably in Costa Rica
Theodora Tsentas
6th April, 2010
It's not organic but ‘pro-environmental sustainable' farming practices could help coffee farmers move away from damaging industrial monoculture more...Members
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