pesticides
23th November 2023
The troubled proposal for a regulation for the reduction of synthetic pesticides in agriculture (SUR) has been rejected by the European Parliament. (1) A few months after [...]
18 March 2023
Two representatives of the Italian Parliament together with the CREA research body and the Assobiotech confindustria association have declared their intention to start experimenting in the open field of the new [...]
15 January 2021
#Savethebees - 'Let's save the bees! Protecting biodiversity and improving insect habitats in Europe 'is the European citizens' initiative which must collect 1 million signatures [...]
21 October 2020
Health and cancer, an oxymoron. The cells of the European institutions also go crazy when it comes to pesticides, herbicides and other agrotoxins. The Commission promises to eliminate its use in the [...]
4 July 2020
Genetic improvement, Assisted Evolution Technologies (TEA). Or even NBT (New Breeding Techniques), or Gene Editing (GE). They are puns, paraphrases designed to designate the new GMOs with terms that do not [...]
10 August 2019
It's pesticide cataclysm in Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil. Land robberies, deforestation and agrotoxics in bursts. In the vacuum of politics and the irresponsibility of supply chain operators, [...]