MPs have called for the dissolution of the Pest Control Products Board (PCPB), accusing it of protecting agrochemical companies linked to harmful pesticides blamed for rising cancer cases in the ...

Mr Katerevu pointed out that fake agrochemicals, sold at high prices, have increased sugarcane production costs, causing farmers to lose money.The chairperson of Busoga Sugarcane Growers Association, ...

And they’re depending more on chemicals like pesticides and fertilizers to buffer against unreliable ... but the negotiations ...

In their 2024 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides, the EWG explains that the data was derived from the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration tests on 47,510 samples of 46 ...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, small farmers rely heavily on synthetic pesticides, the overuse of which poses significant risks to human health, the environment, and food safety. Yet detailed empirical ...

The rapid spread of the highly infectious avian flu virus H5N1 has reached an “unprecedented” scale, wiping out hundreds of millions of birds worldwide and increasingly spilling over into mammals, the ...

But some farmers, like Manguri, were not able to get pesticides quickly. Dr. Christian Thierfelder ... and Early Warning System (FAMEWS), a mobile app developed by the FAO to record data on fall ...

According to FAO, world coffee prices reached a multi-year high in 2024, increasing 38.8 percent on the previous year’s average, mostly due to inclement weather affecting key producing countries.

These pesticides — previously used for pest control in major crops such as wheat, cotton, rice and vegetables — have been linked to severe environmental degradation, contamination of water ...