DPR's 2017 pesticide use data just announced: more than 200 million pounds used, chlorpyrifos is UP, glyphosate is in the top 10
Pesticide use remains near record high in California, state data show
Sacramento, CA: Pesticide use in California topped two hundred million pounds for the third year in a row in 2017, according to data just released by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Included in this total are increases in use of the brain-damaging...
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Governor Newsom Announces Cancellation of Brain-harming Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
Dow’s cheap and devastating nerve gas is the first pesticide ever to be cancelled in California Sacramento, CA: California’s farmworking communities will soon get a reprieve from a devastating pesticide linked to permanent brain damage in young children. A little more...
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April 25, 2019 Teresa Marks, Acting Director Department of Pesticide Regulation 1001 I Street Sacramento, CA 95812 Dear Acting Director Marks, In March, researchers from UCLA Law School published Governance on the Ground: Evaluating the Role of County Agricultural...
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"The agriculture sector is one of the biggest emitters of CO2, the greenhouse gas (GHG) most responsible for the changes we are seeing in our climate today. Together with forestry and other land use, agriculture is responsible for just under 25 percent of all human-created GHG emissions"
What is Regenerative Agriculture?
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In addition to a long list of incredible benefits for farmers and their crops, regenerative agriculture practices help us fight the climate crisis by pulling carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it in the ground."The true cost of cheap, unhealthy food is a spiralling public health crisis and environmental destruction, according to a [UK]high-level commission"
True cost of cheap food is health and climate crises, says commission
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Radical change needed to make UK food and farming system sustainable within 10 yearsNew UK report urges radical change in ag to make it sustainable in 10 years. “Our own health and the health of the land are inextricably intertwined but in the last 70 years, this relationship has been broken,” said the report. The commission said most farmers thought they could make big changes in five to 10 years if they got the right backing.
True cost of cheap food is health and climate crises, says commission
theguardian.com
Radical change needed to make UK food and farming system sustainable within 10 years