Nepali workers who quit jobs and borrowed cash to come to the UK are out of work just weeks after arriving. Heartbreaking story.
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Nepali workers who quit jobs and borrowed cash to come to the UK are out of work just weeks after arriving. Heartbreaking story.
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Mexican officials continue to do the right thing for their citizens by banning more super-toxic pesticides.
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According to new research by Nielsen, after ten years of steady growth, UK organic food sales have fallen by 2.1%.
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The war in Ukraine has forced farmers in Uganda to utilize an unlikely resource.
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Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard, the head of Europe’s largest food retailer, said consumers now have penny-pinching approach to shopping and are swapping out organic for conventional.
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An excellent analysis of the economic situation in Sri Lanka and what the media, including Tucker Carlson, fail to mention when blaming the country’s financial problems on the switch to organic farming.
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More fallout from the NYT investigation about fraud in the Indian organic cotton market.
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Indian leaders are very astute when it comes to recognizing the importance of organic food.
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Similar to The Washington Post’s story a few years ago about fraudulent organic grains from Turkey and Ukraine, this article exposes just how easy it is for bad actors in India to manipulate the USDA’s antiquated and porous paper-based system. Here is the response to the NYT article from the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS).
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Germany’s new agriculture minister said that “junk prices” drive “farms into ruin, prevent more animal welfare, promote the extinction of species and pollute the climate.”
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More than a third of fruit and vegetable products in France are thought to be sold in plastic wrapping, and government officials believe that the ban could prevent a billion items of single-use plastics from being used every year.
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Under a revolutionary program to protect the environment, farmers in the UK will get a cash subsidy if they avoid using harmful pesticides and herbicides.
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Excellent news! The Mexican government rejects a GMO corn permit for the first time ever.
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Could this soon be the U.S. as well?
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In 2020, Chinese organic sales grew 18.6%, ranking it 4th globally.
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U.S. and India spar over organic soy, raising U.S. feed prices.
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Leaders of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa — a group of 200 million farmers, fishers and consumers — explain how they want agroecology, not GMOs and toxic chemicals.
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Canadians could soon be buying genetically-modified foods and plants sold with minimal government oversight, recently released federal guidance suggests.
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In banning glyphosate, Mexico has embraced the precautionary principle and the growing body of scientific research showing the dangers of the chemical.
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The organic market in the UK is now worth £2.79 billion, having just experienced its highest year-on-year growth rate since 2005.
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Small farmers in India face perilous changes in the marketplace, which will favor large-scale farming and more corporate control — and the environmental consequences that come along with that.
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The USDA is ending its recognition agreement that had allowed Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority accredited certifiers to provide USDA organic certification in India.
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While there are a few exceptions, organic products certified in one country are automatically considered certified organic in the other.
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