Intensive agribusiness is causing a global decline in insect populations with serious consequences for humans and the rest of nature.
… Agriculture and insects Colin Tosh | 1st May 2019 News Agriculture Insects Biodiversity … is the way they point the finger at intensive agriculture and pesticide use. Entomologists …
With most of our food exports going to the EU, and most of our food imports coming from the EU, Molly Scott Cato wondered what plans the government had for the sector after Brexit. The answer? None! Two reports published today map out a positive future of sustainable farming, local food, thriving rural economies and abundant biodiversity. But is the government on the same page?
… is crucial to them. Ploughing a lone furrow: agriculture post-Brexit The lack of vision by … two reports I commissioned on the future of agriculture in the UK. The reports aim to … as they currently get through the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP). However, they say …
Missouri voters have narrowly passed a 'right to farm' amendment to the state constitution. But small farmers already enjoy such rights, writes Ben Whitford. The beneficiaries will be industrial-scale corporate producers who now have a legal shield against regulation on GMOs, pollution, animal welfare and health standards - and, of course, the lawyers.
… Missouri: corporate agriculture wins 'Right to Farm' Ben Whitford … farming operations. A victory for corporate agriculture While the constitutional "right to … those same rights on to big corporations, big agriculture, Monsanto, the rest of that crew." …
The nature of Britain's trade deals with the United States after Brexit raises serious concerns about the quality of food on supermarket shelves - and the influence of vested interests in the meat industry, reports LAWRENCE CARTER of EnergyDesk, Greenpeace.
… of trade at the US department of agriculture, Ted McKinney, is a former … UK is not willing to drop restrictions. “The agriculture community here can prevent a UK-US … that doesn’t eliminate tariffs on food and agriculture products… and non-tariff …
As reform of the EU's agriculture policy gets underway, Miles King of the Grassland Trust tells Matilda Lee how intensive farming has all but destroyed England's 'rainforests' and why it's time we started asking for more from our farmers
… Farming CAP Grasslands Biodiversity Intensive Agriculture Butterflies Pesticides Fertilisers … As reform of the EU's agriculture policy gets underway, Miles King … purpose: to provide cheap food through modern agriculture,' says Miles King, director of the …
We cannot rely on governments in meeting in Paris to solve the many-headed climate problem, writes Vandana Shiva. It's up to us to safeguard the future of the Earth, and of our own and other species. So let's all join in this pact to love and protect our one and only home.
… sinks for carbon. Ecological and regenerative agriculture is based on recycling organic … GMOs, no to patents. 4. Industrial globalised agriculture is a major contributor to the climate crisis Industrial Globalised agriculture contributes more than 40% of the …
A Pennsylvania seed library stands accused of 'agri-terrorism' over alleged breaches of the Seed Act 2004, reports a bemused Kevin Carson. Have USDA and state agriculture departments become the enforcement branch of the agribusiness crime syndicate?
… a bemused Kevin Carson. Have USDA and state agriculture departments become the enforcement … Seed Library Investigated by Department of Agriculture '), the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture is investigating an heirloom seed …
News headlines today suggest that a UN report on glyphosate residues has given the controversial herbicide a clean bill of health, writes Georgina Downs. But that's seriously misleading: the panel concludes that exposure to the chemical in food is unlikely to cause cancer. But that does not apply to those exposed to it occupationally or who live near sprayed fields.
… weed killer product and widely used in agriculture and by gardeners, is unlikely to … a new safety review by United Nations health, agriculture and food experts." Yet these … from a Joint Meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations …
For decades Israel has been driving Palestinian farmers off their land by imposing restrictions on agriculture, writes JONATHAN COOK. But one company, Canaan Fair Trade, has found an innovative way to resist peacefully, increasing resilience and prosperity in rural West Bank communities, and forging international alliances in the global movement for good food and farming.
… off their land by imposing restrictions on agriculture, writes JONATHAN COOK. But one … outside the main cities depended on agriculture, working their small holdings as … rural areas where Palestinians had practised agriculture and which were being actively …
The risk of cancer from the world's top herbicide, glyphosate, is just the tip of the iceberg of health damage caused by exposure to pesticides and other toxic agrochemicals, writes Georgina Downs. It's time for governments to correct their scandalous failure to protect rural residents from the cocktails of poisons sprayed on crops.
… the widespread use of glyphosate in agriculture worldwide then it is not … lobby, that damage will be caused to agriculture and food production by any … that the widespread use of pesticides in agriculture is causing serious damage to the …
A recently discovered peatland in northeast Peru contains two years worth of US carbon emissions, writes Joe Sandler Clarke, but it's under threat from the rapidly advancing 'palm oil frontier'. Now scientists are calling for the wetland's immediate protection - before it's too late to save it.
… road-building and the arrival of commercial agriculture threatens the important ecosystem. … The researchers note that while commercial agriculture is yet to expand into the … explained. "The development of commercial agriculture and transport infrastructure are …
Back in the 1990s Scotts Miracle-Gro worked out a cunning plan, writes Jeff Manning: to make a fortune from a GMO grass seed for golf courses that survived the Roundup herbicide. But after investing $100 million in the project, it has never sold a single seed. And now the GMO is spreading from test plantings in Idaho, and threatening Oregon's $1 billion hay and grass seed industry.
… grass's territory. The US Department of Agriculture, which for 14 years had refused to … alarming. The Oregon and Idaho departments of agriculture oppose deregulation, as does US … said Katy Coba, former director of the Oregon Agriculture Department. "We need to figure out …
Seeds are essential to our food and our entire lives, writes Rowan Phillimore. So join in celebrating and sharing them at a series of events this month in London, Bristol, Devon, Oxford, Lancaster, Herts - and begin the fightback against corporate domination of seeds and oppressive government regulation.
… government regulation. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that … that sustains us- and our duty to protect it. Agriculture to Agribusiness Over the last 50 … practices that were the foundation of agriculture. The curators of diversity, and …
Just as the chemical industry and its shills once proclaimed the safety of DDT, they are doing the same today with the herbicide glyphosate which has penetrated throughout the food chain, writes Evaggelos Vallianatos. And once again it is a toxic lie that threatens species, ecosystems and people. It's time to demand a new kind of agriculture, and a future free of all pesticides.
… and people. It's time to demand a new kind of agriculture, and a future free of all … alliance between the Pentagon and big agriculture, with agriculture borrowing the Pentagon's chemical …
Agroecological science must be at the centre of the Agriculture Bill.
… Bennett | 17th July 2020 News Biodiversity Agriculture Bill Fungi wild_mushrooms.jpg … science must be at the centre of the Agriculture Bill. Fungi are barely mentioned in the Agriculture Bill debated in the House of Lords …
EU Commission proposes compulsory environmental measures for farmers in reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) but campaigners fear member states will weaken final agreement
… provide to society as a whole. European agriculture needs to be not only economically … also environmentally competitive,' said EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Cioloş;. The … also a strongly held view that 'industrial' agriculture should have little place in the …
Field after field of barren grassy hills is neither ecologically desirable nor essential. We desperately need to break up this green concrete by planting more trees in our uplands.
… Banahan | 5th July 2019 News Vegan Veganism Agriculture Reforestation Biodiversity Thought … the centuries for a variety of reasons, with agriculture playing a huge part. Zero carbon … pastureland was repurposed for rewilding, UK agriculture could meet the necessary …
Thirty-five distinguished scientists urge the US-EPA not to register new mixtures of the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate, intended for use on herbicide-tolerant GMO crops. Approval of the herbicide mixtures would endanger both human and environmental health.
… in the United States, the US Department of Agriculture and EPA are close to approving the … to the present amounts used annually for agriculture in the United States. [9] The … USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture). 2013. Dow AgroSciences Petitions …
The new People Need Nature report - published to coincide with this week's annual Oxford Real Farming Conference - warns that modern farming practices are not good for wildlife. But they're not good for humans either. And with predictions that we will need to produce 70 per cent more food to feed a third more mouths by 2050 the question of seed ownership and diversity cannot be ignored. KATHRYN HINDESS reports
… a dramatic pace. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), some "75% of … campaigner Vandana Shiva believes agriculture giants, ‘make commodity out of … the genetic information of 10,000 years of agriculture lies frozen. Svalbard Seed Vault …
The EU's farming policy is being touted as 'greener than ever' - but it's no such thing, write Lynn Dicks & Tim Benton. The 'green reforms' pay farmers for actions (and often inactions) that do not benefit wildlife, and contain no real or effective measures to help.
… diverse rural landscape. Land given over to agriculture should produce more than just food …
At what point are technologies so complex, uncertain, or unmanageable as to be beyond regulation? The question is key to human and ecological health, writes Jonatham Latham. But instead of learning from successful approaches, such as aviation safety, we are throwing the lessons away when faced with truly complex problems - like chemicals, GMOs, and now 'gene drives'.
… the reason that many GMO varieties used in agriculture are restricted in their … most long term interactions outside of the agriculture and food system. Thus the number …
If it wasn't climate change, was the real purpose of the Number 10 meeting of Theresa May's advisors and President Trump's environmental transition supremo Myron Ebell to plan the post-Brexit deregulation of UK farming, including pesticides? That's how it looks, writes Georgina Downs - and we had better begin now to fight for our health, wildlife and environment.
… to? And could discussions on pesticides in agriculture/farming have played a part in any … "was a productive meeting about the future of agriculture ... " [4] Following that meeting I … of great concern, especially considering that agriculture and farming has been cited as one …
As scientific evidence grows of the many ways in which glyphosate - pipe-cleaner, herbicide and antibiotic - damages the environment and health, governments and regulators turn a blind eye, writes Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji, and the EU has even raised allowable residue levels. It's time for us all to put bans in place wherever we can!
… toxicity a concern for biodiversity, agriculture and sustainability The spread of … environmental damage through no-tillage agriculture and glyphosate use - a supposedly … weeds, and an end to no till agriculture, resulting in further soil …