“Pesticides and Wildlife” – new RSPB report
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 [...]
National Food Strategy: a half-baked attempt to reform the food system
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: [...]
Tackling “Big Apple”: Lessons in Pesticide Campaigning
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 [...]
Silent Spring at Sixty: Lessons in Pesticide Campaigning
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 [...]
Springtime signs of the times?
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 [...]
The weather has not saved the bees this time
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 [...]
Pesticide reduction in the UK? Some lessons from South Asia
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 [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Government puts bees at risk
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 [...]
Statement on emergency authorisation of neonicotinoid
For the second year in a row, British Sugar has been successful in their application for the use of thiamethoxam on sugar beet in England. And for the second [...]
End of year Roundup
As the first year of The Pesticide Collaboration draws to a close, we wanted to do a “Roundup” of some highlights so far. A huge thanks to everyone who [...]