The UK Government's "dither and delay" approach to pesticide policy continues to put the health of our natural world at serious risk, sixty years after author Rachel Carson first [...]
Steph Morren has written this blog, introducing a new report from Wildfish, RSPB, Buglife and The Pesticide Collaboration called Chemical Pollution: The Silent Killer of UK Rivers. “The most [...]
How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to [...]
On Monday, the Government published it's food strategy white paper – the much anticipated response to the National Food Strategy, authored by restauranteur Henry Dimbleby. In his introduction, Dimbleby said: [...]
Set up to urgently reduce pesticide-related harms in the UK, we at The Pesticide Collaboration are taking a closer look at pesticide campaigns over the last sixty years. For [...]
Set up to urgently reduce pesticide-related harms in the UK, we at The Pesticide Collaboration are taking a closer look at pesticide campaigns over the last sixty years. For [...]
2022 marks sixty years since the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, and so, sixty years since the birth of the modern environmental movement in the Global North. Many of [...]
As we reported here and here, the Government approved the use of the banned pesticide thiamethoxam for sugar beet in England in 2022. The same approval was given last [...]
As UK agriculture stands at a post-Brexit crossroads, we take a look at two differing attempts to reduce and phase out pesticides in South Asia. What lessons can be [...]
The Government, for the second year running, has allowed for a banned bee-harming pesticide to be used by sugar beet farmers in England, threatening our precious pollinators In making [...]
