12/19/2018: Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture recently appointed three new members to the Science Advisory Council, including IPM Institute of North America president and co-founder Dr. Tom…
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12/13/18: The Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) counts it’s successes in 2018 in this article on the Packer. “Our mission is to bring together growers, farm workers, retailers and consumers to…
12/07/18: World Wildlife Fund and ISEAL Alliance enlisted Aid Environment to develop a white paper on how voluntary sustainability standards can bring about broader changes, like facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogue, engaging…
11/30/18: FoodPrint now offers an online encyclopedia of food sustainability, where you can find information on the environmental footprint of over 200 food items, along with shopping and cooking tips….
11/29/18: On November 15, California regulators recommended new restrictions on the use of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide deemed dangerous by a federal appeals court in August. These temporary guidelines include banning…
11/20/18: As of November 14, the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) entered into a partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to collaborate around issues of healthy soils, clean water, climate…
11/05/18: On Sunday, October 28, Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right former army captain won a sweeping victory in Brazil’s presidential election. He has received intense international criticism for his comments on…
A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, based on the “NutriNet-Santé” pool of nutrition volunteers in France has asserted that a diet of organic food can reduce the risk…
In August, the the San Francisco-based Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that there was no safe level of exposure to chlorpyrifos in food, one of the most…
The Pesticide Risk Tool (PRT), an online tool operated by IPM Institute to assess the potential risks of pesticide applications to non-target organisms including people and pollinators, was recently accepted…