Tag Archives: farmers

A $1.51 billion settlement has been reached in the nationwide class action lawsuit filed in Kansas federal court over Syngenta’s genetically...

The largest rural movements in Brazil, representing well over a million farmers, are protesting a new Brazilian regulation that would allow release of...

Use of controversial neonicotinoid insecticides (“neonics”) in agriculture is not as effective as once thought, and can be replaced by advantageous...

On Friday, public interest organizations representing farmers and conservationists made their legal case in a federal lawsuit against the Environmental...

The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) stated last week that they are alarmed by the influx of products containing GMOs into the Ghanaian market...

Western corn rootworm can destroy cornfields — and profits — but populations of the “billion-dollar bug” have stopped responding to insecticides...

Monsanto Co said last Thursday that Mexico’s agriculture sanitation authority SENASICA had revoked its permit to commercialize genetically modified soy...

Research from the the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) in Canada has linked the use of neonicotinoid insecticides to serious health issues in songbirds,...

France and the European Union need independent scientific experts to guide them on divisive environmental issues such as pesticides, French President Emmanuel...

Cornell University researchers have found an agricultural conflict: negative consequences of the weed-killing herbicide glyphosate on Pseudomonas, a soil-friendly...