In 2015, in the frame of the LIFE program, the EU 24 environmental & climate NGOs with €9 million funding. The EU has published a article summarizing these fundings and a complete report with details for each organization and each action For example, about « pesticides », Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe), receive 150K€ for a work program detailed…
The Guardian, a British daily, publishes “Produced but never eaten: a visual guide to food waste” which is a global analysis of the food waste (“intentional”), but also of losses which are uninentional. “Each year 1.3bn tonnes of food, about a third of all that is produced, is wasted.” “In developing countries there are high levels of what…
Christophe Bouchet, CulturAgriculture blog, has begun a serie of articles about plant protection and plant protection products. The three first articles are worth reading… – “What is a pesticide?” (en français, in English, en español), dedicated to definition and utility of pesticides. – “Reminder” (en français, in English, en español), utile rappel historique. – “Herbicides, what for ?” (en…
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“Unhealthy fixation” is a long, detailed, but very clear article. In it, William Saletan, author at Slate, questions “The war against genetically modified organisms is full of fearmongering, errors, and fraud”. This war is very similar to the one against “pesticides”. One important point in this article is how W Saletan argues that every judgment about agricultural practices…
Upon this title, Henry Miller, Biomedical scientist, FDA drug regulator and scholar at the Hoover Institution, argues mainly on the fact that pesticides residues issue is not a real issue and on the difficulties to implement an effective control of the organic chain, for regulatory reasons. That leads cheating. There is nothing in the article about agronomy or…
L’atelier des archives, a French Internet site, has put this movie (in English) on line. USDA (US Department of Agriculture) and HHS (United States Department of Health and Human Services) had produced this movie in 1963. It’s all about Good Practices in Plant Protection, especially in using pesticides. The movie insists on the obligation of complying with pesticide label,…
Upon this title, Tamar Haspel, writer, demonstrates that the “unbreachable divide between advocates of modern conventional agriculture and, essentially, everyone else, from the mainstream (organic, local, anti-GMO) to the less-so (biodynamics, permaculture, agroforestry)” is not only partisan, but also misleading, “for the simple reason that food and philosophy don’t mix”. According to T Haspel, agriculture is a matter of…
COLEACP-PIP is an initiative for the search of Plant Protection solutions for ACP (Africa-Caribbean-Pacific) countries . In this article (in English), COLEACP, which pilot this initiative, explains the work in progress for a better knowledge of biocontrol solutions. COLEACP notes : « Minor crops (including fruit, vegetables, and herbs) face a global shortage of plant protection products PPPs). The…