The world’s leading pesticide producer, Syngenta is taking legal action against the European Commission’s recent decision to suspend the use of thiamethoxam. According to the Basel-based agrochemical group, the decision was taken “on the basis of a flawed process, resulting in an inadequate and incomplete assessment …
7000 people turned up outside of Europe’s biggest chicken slaughterhouse on Saturday, August 31st to demonstrate against the the kind of industrial farming that is destroying fair, green and local food and farming. Organized by the German campaign alliance “Meine Landwirtschaft” (my agriculture) the event was a huge success. …
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on family farming. The majority of the EU’s 12 million farms are still family farms, passed down from one generation to another. Until 11 October 2013, citizens, organisations and public authorities in the European Union interested in family …
