Supporting farmers to reduce their reliance on pesticides – does the latest proposal for the new Environmental Land Management Schemes (ELMS) in England go far enough?

2023-02-08T14:11:19+00:0026 January 2023|General news|

Steph Morren unpacks the latest announcement on ELMS. Earlier in January, we heard from Mark Spencer – farming minister at Defra – about the Government’s plans for the roll-out of [...]

Write to your MP: Neonics approval and parliamentary debate on bee-killing pesticides

2023-03-16T10:24:14+00:0025 January 2023|General news|

In light of the government's decision to once again grant the 'emergency' use of the banned bee-harming pesticide thiamethoxam - a type of neonicotinoid - on sugar beet in [...]

Press Release: UK government allows ‘emergency’ use of banned bee-harming pesticide just days after EU tightens protections

2023-01-23T16:43:53+00:0023 January 2023|General news|

For immediate release - 23 January 2023 UK government allows ‘emergency’ use of banned bee-harming pesticide just days after EU tightens protections Today, 23 January 2023, the government has [...]

Sixty years later, book that launched environmental movement exposes Government’s inaction on pesticides

2022-09-27T10:42:51+01:0027 September 2022|General news|

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 [...]

NEW REPORT “Chemical Pollution: The Silent Killer of UK Rivers”

2022-08-18T11:37:35+01:0018 August 2022|General news, Uncategorised|

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 [...]

National Food Strategy: a half-baked attempt to reform the food system

2022-06-16T14:16:48+01:0016 June 2022|General news, Pesticides and food|

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: [...]

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