Food & agriculture

How do agribusiness corporations impact decisions on our food system?

Bayer, BASF lobby pushed to scrap safety rules on new GM crops – even if they increase pesticide use

The biotech industry want GM herbicide-tolerant and insecticide-producing crops to be allowed into our fields without safety checks or labelling. The Commission jumped to obey and designed a GMO deregulation law that will harm health, biodiversity, and farmers.

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Legal opinion on a Chemical Export Ban and compatibility with World Trade Organisation Rules

By Andrea Hamann, Professor and expert on international dispute settlements, concludes that WTO rules do not pose a legal obstacle to an export ban on hazardous chemicals prohibited in the EU.

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Pesticides & GMOs

The two-year lobbying campaign to sabotage pesticide-reduction

The severity of climate change and biodiversity decline are evident to many and 1.1 million people supported a European Citizens' Initiative calling for a very ambitious pesticide reduction and support for farmers to achieve this.

Image of Bayer, BASF, Syngenta, Corteva and Crop Life Europe and a tractor spreading pesticides and the words: EU Pesticide Reduction Law

Pesticides & GMOs

Sabotaging EU Pesticide Reduction Law (SUR)

Pesticide industry lobbies and their allies have waged a relentless attack on the Farm to Fork promise to cut pesticide use and harm in half by 2030. This key law for biodiversity and health risks to be severely compromised.

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Pesticides & GMOs

Video: Big trouble with glyphosate

Next week, the extention of the use of the herbicide glyphosate for 10 more years in the European Union will be voted. Will they get away with it?

Pesticide reduction under threat. Take action now!

The Green Deal flagship proposal to significantly reduce pesticides is under attack from the pesticide industry and its political allies. Take action now: your voice counts!!

Image of beans and the words: EU Watchdog Radio Episode 45: No political will to curb food speculation

No political will to curb food speculation

In this new episode of EU Watchdog Radio, Hans van Scharen talks to UN rapporteur on the right to Food Michael Fakhri and Political scientist Yiorgos Vassalos.

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Oil-linked group's EU influencing exposed

The Consumer Choice Center, a US oil-linked pressure group, is now the subject of a new complaint for untransparent and problematic lobbying.

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Pesticides & GMOs

Media reaction: Leaked proposal to deregulate new GMOs

A leaked version of DG SANTE’s proposal to deregulate products of ‘new genomic techniques’ (NGTs, or new GMOs) confirms the early warnings by environmental, sustainable farming groups, consumer-groups and scientists.

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Right-wing Europe on a hunt to kill the remains of the Green Deal

As the right wing EPP grouping of the European Parliament gears up with 2024’s election in its sights, it senses blood as its hunts down key aspects of the Green Deal. Legislation to protect biodiversity and make food production more sustainable is under concerted attack.

EU Watdog Radio Episode 43: Hunger is a political failure over the image of corn grains

Hunger is not an issue of production but of political failure

In this episode of EU Watchdog Radio, Hans van Scharen talks to Special UN Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri.

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Pesticides & GMOs

Timmermans: Prevent deregulation of GM now!

300+ NGOs call on Vice-President Timmermans to intervene and prevent the far-reaching deregulation of new genomic techniques at the expense of nature and the climate, and of farmers’ and consumers’ rights.

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