Conclusions from workshop on impact of pesticides legislation
Last night, I attended a press conference following a scientists? workshop on the impact of the proposed revision of the EU?s pesticide legislation (Directive 91/414). Ian Denholm from the Rothamsted...
View ArticleScientists comment on current food prices and crop yields
Here are some more clips from interviews recorded at the scientific workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia, last week (see other blog entries below). Dr Ian Denholm, Rothamsted Research, UK, speaks about the...
View ArticlePesticide legislation: a scientific viewpoint
Asked about their views on the revision of current legislation governing pesticides in Europe, the scientists who signed the Declaration of Ljubljana last week, had the following to say: descriptive...
View ArticleEuropean Commission?s Joint Research Centre: scientific assessments mean more...
At the?Forum for the Future of Agriculture (see previous posts below) we spoke to Luca Montaranella, who is with theLand Management and Natural Hazards Unit at the Institute for Environment and...
View ArticleAn explanation for the cause of colony collapse disorder?
Last month, researchers at the University of Illinois and the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a study that is the first to identify a single cause of the colony collapse disorder that has been...
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Airwaves: The effect of insecticides on bees
graphic editing software New scientific research suggests that pesticides have a lesser effect on bees than first thought. The debate took to the airwaves last week on BBC’s Radio 4, here’s the full...
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Biting the hand that feeds us
working from home jobs Agriculture is not what it used to be, it grew-up; it became more efficient, increasingly precise and productive, and employs a diversity of technological solutions. So things...
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