31st May 2023 Dear Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans, Dear Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides, Dear Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski, Dear Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius, Dear Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen,...
In the framework of the ‘Ecofeminist Women+s Meeting,’ which will take place in Altinkamp Burhaniye, Turkey, from 19-21 May 2023, co-organized by ecofeminists of Turkey and Navdanya International, Dr. Vandana Shiva, President of Navdanya International, will give a keynote...
Pressenza Muenchen, 09 February 2023 | Source Those who buy “organic” do so in order to obtain food and products that are free of genetic engineering and pesticides and that have also been produced in a more environmentally friendly...
Civil society organisations around the globe demand a moratorium on genetically engineered gene drives at UN Biodiversity Conference – Berlin, 1 December 2022 – Ahead of the UN Biodiversity Conference COP 15 and its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in...
Exports of banned hazardous chemicals: time to put an end to double standards 1. Hazardous chemicals, banned at a domestic level in order to protect human health and the environment, are currently produced and exported by EU countriesto third...
The GMO-Free Europe event took place on 17 November 2022 at the European Parliament, co-organised by Save Our Seeds and IFOAM Organics Europe and hosted by the Green Group / EFA in the European Parliament. We discussed the European...
Vice-President Jourová and Commissioner Kyriakides receive Bees ECI demands On Friday 25 November, representatives of the European Citizens Initiative Save Bees and Farmers delivered a clear message to Vice-President Jourová and Commissioner Kyriakides: we want an end to the...
By Alexia Cassinari – Salus, 4 October 2022 | Source The international conference “ Promoting health and sustainability: the natural way out of the permanent state of emergency ” was held on 28 and 29 September at the European...
By Paige Bennet – EcoWatch, 23 June 2022 | Source The European Commission has proposed a new law that would cut pesticide use in half by 2030 and completely ban the use of these chemicals near schools, playgrounds and...
A broad coalition of environment and progressive farmers organisations, launches a petition urging the EU to keep GM food strictly regulated and labelled. Big chemical and seed corporations want to push new genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on the market,...