For the last few months civil society has been calling for a reform of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement which produces a double standard when it comes to pesticide importation and exportation, especially in food and agriculture trade. Roughly 45.5% of EU imports from Mercosur countries are agricultural products, making the issue of pesticides central to […]

AFRICA MALAWI In April 2019, Malawi’s Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development announced the immediate suspension of all import licenses for glyphosate-based herbicides. Govt suspends Monsanto’s roundup import permit TOGO Since 2019, the West African country of Togo has prohibited the import, market or use of glyphosate and any product […]

Esistono oltre 20.000 specie di api di cui l’ape domestica è solo una. Sono tutte impollinatrici e sono responsabili della maggior parte dell’impollinazione delle colture.1 La maggior parte degli impollinatori sono selvatici, ma alcune specie di api possono essere gestite, come le api da miele (Apis mellifera, Apis cerana), alcuni calabroni e alcune api solitarie.1 […]

Contaminanti Ambientali e pesticidi             Più di 80.000 nuovi prodotti chimici e 20 milioni di sottoprodotti commercializzati a partire dalla seconda guerra mondiale. Dal 1945, produzione globale di pesticidi aumentata di circa 26 volte: da 0,1 a 2,7 milioni di tonnellate. La tossicità di alcuni pesticidi ha continuato ad aumentare: gli attuali pesticidi sono da […]

1 Cos’è il glifosato e perché dovrebbe preoccuparci? Il glifosato è il principio attivo dei principali erbicidi utilizzati in agricoltura. Dal 1974 negli Stati Uniti, sono stati utilizzati più di 1.6 miliardi di kilogrammi di principio attivo del glifosato, vale a dire il 19% dell’uso globale stimato di glifosato (8.6 miliardi di kilogrammi). A livello […]

In just 100 years, the chemicals and technologies of war-based conglomerates, which produced and profited from the chemicals that killed millions of people during the two world wars, have continued their destruction, wiping out millions of species by spreading poisonous agrichemicals, destroying our fragile ecosystems, poisoning our soils and entire web of life, undermining every […]

Building on the propaganda about the benefits of chemical agriculture, the agrochemical/biotechnology industry has promoted in the last decades the false promise that its genetically engineered crops would feed the world, produce higher yields, resist climate change and reduce the use of pesticides. But none of these promises has been fulfilled: The vast majority of […]

The first batch of Monsanto Papers were published in early 2017. The dossier contained hundreds of internal emails of Monsanto, as well as its correspondence with US Federal Agencies, the content of which revealed the magnitude of collusion between Monsanto and the EPA in order to undermine the investigation of the potential hazard of Glyphosate […]

 Genetic engineering was introduced with several promises, such as fixing nitrogen, resisting drought, improving yield and ‘feeding the world’, which have contributed to build up a multibillion-dollar industry now controlled by a handful of corporate giants. So far, only two simple characteristics account for all the GM crops in the world. The majority of […]