Pesticides

The EU Parliament blocked legislation to reduce pesticide use in agriculture. Behind alleged concerns over food safety lie the interests of the agrochemical industry.

How the American biologist changed the course of the environmental movement through her seminal work Silent Spring.

The moment is now to redefine our food systems around principles of sustainability and justice.

An agricultural specialist reports on the ground with the Belgian farmers adopting agroecology, the sustainable techniques that let nature do the work.

The most popular – and the most poisonous – insecticides are bringing us to the brink of a pollination crisis as EU legislation falls short.

The debate around glyphosate goes beyond whether it’s carcinogenic or not – it challenges our whole model of agriculture, but there is an alternative.