Dear Mayor Virgina Raggi, On the occasion of my speech for the inauguration of Feminism, the women’s book fair, at the “International Women’s House“, I was made aware that this place is about to close and that the building’s...
Press release – Umweltinstitut München e. V. (Munich, this 8th March 2019) Pesticides from agriculture can spread uncon-trollably via the air. Which substances are in the air – when and where – was measured by the Munich Environmental Institute...
Greens/EFA, 7 March 2019 | Source Today the European Court of Justice has ruled that the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) must publish all studies around the cancer risks of glyphosate. The Court agreed with the Greens/EFA arguments that...
Press release Poison-free Food and Farming: Press Conference with Vandana Shiva Thursday, March 7, 2019 – from 2:30pm to 3:30pm Press Room of the Chamber of Deputies (Palazzo Montecitorio, Via della Missione 4, Rome) ROME – The agriculture of...
On 26 February, the Italian Chamber of Deputies approved a joint motion promoted by MPs from diferent parties, which provides for “initiatives aimed at a more responsible use of harmful pesticides and herbicides, as well as initiatives to support...
France, February 2019 – In continuation with the work started in Paris at COP21 in 2015 and the Pact for the Earth, a series of events were organised in France, in collaboration with the association SOL Association to promote the...
Democracy Now, 22 February 2019 | Source New research finds at least a third of the Himalayan ice cap will melt by the end of the century due to climate change, even if the world’s most ambitious environmental reforms...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 22 February 2019 | Source Based on information provided by 91 countries and 27 international organizations, analysis of global literature and datasets, and contributions from over 175 authors and reviewers,...
On January 22, 2019, at the start of the 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos 150+ European organisations, trade unions and social movements launch a new trade and corporate accountability campaign called “Rights for People and Rules for Corporations...
By Dr Vandana Shiva A new report from EAT seems to suggest that “plant based diets “ will protect the health of the planet and of people, evading the glaring chronic disease epidemic related to pesticides and toxics in...