Agroecology Industrial Agriculture Pesticide 
Civil Eats
MARCH 11, 2025
It also necessitates petroleum-based pesticides, from fungicides to herbicides, to ward off weeds and stop sprouting. Another 38 percent comes from retail consumption and waste; and the rest is from industrial inputs (like pesticides and fertilizer) and agriculture production. Meanwhile, we collectively pay the true cost.
Sustainable Harvest International
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Conventional agriculture heavily relies on synthetic chemicals in the form of fertilizers and pesticides. SHI-Belize partner farmer Juvini Acosta reforests land affected by conventional agriculture. Industrial agriculture prioritizes profit over the health of the planet.
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The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
Farms that use extractive agriculture usually are outside the official community line, and therefore they pay no taxes to the communities they pollute. Those corporations spray pesticides that often drifts over people and sensitive environmental areas.
Sustainable Food Trust
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
If Nebraska is a quilt, the seamstresses are its farmers – agriculture has defined the landscape of Nebraska to such an extent that you can literally see it from space. Of course, when I arrived it didn’t take me long to find out about the curiously perfect squares. Farmers’ resolve to change will inevitably be tested.
Modern Farmer
JULY 12, 2024
In reaction to the European Union’s Green New Deal, which proposed reducing pesticides, restoring nature and planting more climate-resilient crops, Dutch farm groups have pushed back. The argument that cultivated meat threatens agriculture is paradoxical, says Madre Brava’s Muzi, whose parents are Argentinian ranchers.
National Young Farmers Coalition
JUNE 26, 2024
The bill within EQIP allows up to 90% cost-share for precision agriculture practices. The environmental impact of precision agriculture is not yet understood, but it can potentially increase energy use and the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503).
Food Environment and Reporting Network
MAY 28, 2024
Mexico’s challenge has also bolstered its standing as hemispheric leader of an agroecology movement gaining momentum across the global south. “If Washington’s response reflects the corporate capture of the US regulatory system,” said Fernando Bejarano, director of the Action Network on Pesticides and their Alternatives in Mexico.
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