A new report from Friends of the Earth refutes the widely-held assumption that conventional no-till agriculture is “regenerative.”
Without pollinators, grocery shelves would run short of a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables, nuts, and beans.
The U.S. food retail sector’s use of pesticides on just four crops could result in $219 billion in financial risks between now and 2050.
Friends of the Earth’s analysis finds that, on the fiftieth anniversary of its commercialization, Roundup sold to consumers is more toxic than ever before.
To spur a race to the top, FOE created a retailer scorecard to benchmark 25 of the largest grocery stores on pesticides & pollinator health.
The release of live genetically engineered microbes in agriculture represents an unprecedented open-air genetic experiment.
Like Big Oil and Big Tobacco, pesticide companies spend millions on deceitful strategies to keep their hazardous products unregulated.
Without pollinators, grocery shelves would run short of a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables, nuts, beans, and delicious favorites like chocolate and coffee.
This brief summarizes the science on a third critical principle of regenerative agriculture that receives comparatively little attention: minimizing use of pesticides.
Since neonicotinoid insecticides were introduced in the 1990s, U.S. agriculture has become 48 times more toxic to insect life, according to a new study in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One.