7/24/19: The Equitable Food Initiative has obtained a $1.2 million grant from the Walmart Foundation to promote responsible labor practices on fresh produce farms in Mexico. The grant runs through…
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7/10/19: Thailand’s Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Grisada Boonrach is currently exploring the legal avenues for imposing an immediate ban on three toxic agrochemicals: paraquat, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos. Paraquat has been…
6/24/19: Indigo Agriculture, an agricultural technology start up is rolling out the Terraton Initiative: a carbon-banking project to move one trillion tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and into…
6/19/19: After receiving pushback from the manufacturers of three organophosphate insecticides, the EPA is reevaluating its process for determining the risk level of pesticides, an approach established in 2015. ” Traditionally,…
6/13/19: An analysis by the University of Sussex’s UK Trade Policy Observatory (UKTPO) has found serious departures from human health safety standards in the pages of pesticide policy being converted…
6/6/19: The New Food Economy published an article last Friday detailing the heavy rain and shrinking planting window facing Midwestern farmers this season. This year, weather has pushed the planting…
5/30/19: As climate change worsens, and weather becomes more extreme and varied, many fear that farmland will no longer support the crops it currently grows. The New Food Economy released…
5/20/19: KCUR published an article today discussing the lack of farm worker pesticide exposure incident data in the midwest. “Harvest Public Media asked the departments of agriculture in Colorado, Illinois,…
5/16/19: Bayer on Monday was ordered by a Northern California jury to pay over $2 billion to an elderly couple who say they were diagnosed with cancer after using the…
5/9/19: Defying the Trump EPA’s longstanding inaction, California is now in the process of banning chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide that has been linked to brain damage in children. California…