– European Union: Are NGOs really independant?
– Plant protection (a serie of articles by CulturAgriculture)
– A visual guide to food waste and losses (The Guardian)
– “The Colossal Hoax Of Organic Agriculture” (Henry I Miller, Forbes)
– NGOs about GMOs : “Unhealthy Fixation” (William Saletan, Slate)
European Union: Are NGOs really independant?
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…
Plant protection (a serie of articles by CulturAgriculture)
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…
A visual guide to food waste and losses (The Guardian)
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 as well 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…
“The Colossal Hoax Of Organic Agriculture” (Henry I Miller, Forbes)
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…
NGOs about GMOs : “Unhealthy Fixation” (William Saletan, Slate)
“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…