Sri Lanka’s organic farming disaster, explained
Vox explains how government-mandated only organic farming has contributed to Sri Lanka’s economic free fall. There’s no singular cause for ...
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Mikkel Friis-Holm’s Chocolate War – free speech vs boycotts in Copenhagen
Mikkel Friis-Holm is as true to his moral compass as he is to chocolate making. It led to a heated ...
Fertilisers: going cold turkey in a time of crisis
Farmers across the world began shunning fertiliser in late March as prices skyrocketed, so much so that now stockpiles are ...
EU to halve use of pesticides, heal nature
Reuters reports that the European Commission has proposed legally binding targets to halve the use of chemical pesticides and restore ...
Pesticides are not delivering food security and should be phased out: UN rapporteur
The FAO Council should reconsider its agreement with pesticide lobby group CropLife International, according to the UN Rapporteur on the Right ...
Documentary maker Miki Mistrati wants consumers to know the truth about chocolate
Miki Mistrati has been documenting child labour in West Africa’s cocoa industry since 2007 – and he’s in therapy. “You ...
Confronting novel entities – a severe problem that’s being ignored
I live in a wealthy part of the British Isles, a Unesco site, famed for clean beaches and beautiful scenery. ...
US to ban chlorpyrifos on food crops
The US Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said it will ban the use on food crops of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, ...
France fines Monsanto for data on journalists, activists
France 24 reports that France's personal data protection agency on Wednesday fined US firm Monsanto for illegally compiling files of ...
Are insects safe to eat? FAO explains
As business and consumer interest in edible insects gathers pace, the Food and Agriculture Organization calls for more food safety ...
Free, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as...
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