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Last year's global food crisis made millions for agro-giant Monsanto. Tim Hunt of Ethical Consumer magazine fails to find any redeeming features in this corporate behemoth Try looking objectively at biotech firm Monsanto, a...
Better crop management, including smarter application of pesticides, can help poor farmers cope with climate change Innovative agricultural technologies can produce crops that meet climate change challenges, says ICRISAT head...
Kathy Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition Heather Pilatic, Pesticide Action Network Patrick Woodall, Food & Water Watch Groups Deliver the Concerns of 90,000+ Citizens to Senate on Nomination of Former Pesticide Industry...
The Union of Concerned Scientists ( UCS ) has developed a career-long role that entails finding issues to worry about and writing about them. That can be a good thing because science is definitely about asking the hard...
American farmers have adopted genetically engineered (GE) crops widely since their introduction in 1996 because of the tangible benefits that biotech varieties deliver. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S....
Beijing, China — Earlier this year we released a report which showed supermarkets across China were selling fruits and vegetables with toxic pesticide residues. China must move towards ecological agriculture – it works already...
The rodent repellents are essential to keep away the mice from the houses and offices. Rodent repellents are those products which are mainly used to drive away the rodents from houses and surroundings and areas where the...
By Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones. Obama recently tapped as chief agricultural negotiator for the office of the US Trade Representative a senior executive from one of the pesticide industry's main trade groups. Representatives...
Amy Goodman: Hungering for a true Thanksgiving Staff Writer "In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger," says a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) online video. It continues, "For the first time in humanity,...
The answer is pesticides. After decades of use and positive results, society continues to have misguided opinions regarding pesticides. When you go camping, the bug spray you coat your body in or the leftover chlorine on your...
