Increasing crop diversity reduces pesticides across diverse production situations - Agronomy for Sustainable Development Pesticides have caused significant losses of biodiversity and pose a threat to human health. Crop diversification is proposed as a major solution to achieve the needed pesticide reduction in agricultu...

Zhang, Y., Zhang, C., Cong, WF. et al. Increasing crop diversity reduces pesticides across diverse production situations. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 45, 53 (2025).
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#OrganicsEurope welcomes the adoption of @europarl.europa.eu's own-initiative report and applauds MEPs for keeping focus strictly on #biocontrol, without opening loopholes that could weaken rules on synthetic pesticides.

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👉 Reducing and eliminating synthetic pesticides is essential to protect our health, water, soils, and biodiversity.

Organic farming already provides the tools and innovations to transform our agricultural model and deliver truly sustainable food systems. 🌾

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🚫The Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation was withdrawn in 2023, along with the 50% #PesticideReduction target.
But the need to reduce pesticide use is more urgent than ever.
💡Pesticide taxes can help.
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Our next #EOC2025 session focuses on #WaterResilience. Although acknowledging the role of organic in protecting water & soil, the #WaterResilienceStrategy lacks ambition by not addressing #PesticideUse.
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France Enacts Sweeping Restrictions on Pesticide Use in Public and Private Landscaped Areas - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, July 13, 2022) A new law in France bans the use of lawn and landscape pesticides in both public and private areas frequently used by the public. The law, which came into effect at the beginning of this month, applies throughout the country and extends the scope of a previous decree that restricted pesticide use on green spaces in public areas. As it stands, France’s previous approach is set to be adopted by the entirety of the European Union under its Farm to Fork initiative goals of reducing overall pesticide use by 50% by 2030. This new law, which tracks most similarly to restrictions enacted in most Canadian provinces and by certain U.S. cities like South Portland and Portland, ME, highlights the importance of extending pesticide restrictions to most all outdoor spaces to ensure health and environmental safety. The new restrictions apply to a laundry list of sensitive sites where pesticide use can unnecessarily harm individuals or the wider public: Private residential properties, including their outdoor areas Hotels, hostels, lodgings, camping sites and residential leisure parks Cemeteries Allotments [community gardens]; Amusement, entertainment and recreation parks with a variety of activities and facilities; Areas accessible to the public in […]

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Moms' Pesticide Use Increases Risk of Childhood Brain Tumors - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, October 5, 2017) Research published in the International Journal of Cancer links the residential use of pesticides to an increased risk of childhood brain tumors in children. According to the study, mothers who use pesticides in the home while pregnant put their children at 1.4 times the risk of developing a brain tumor under the age of 15. The study findings point to the need to eliminate the residential use of toxic chemicals by increasing education around alternative pest management practices in the home and garden, as well as regulatory action to remove toxic pesticides from the market. The team of researchers used data drawn from population-based, case-control studies conducted in France, ESCALE and ESTELLE, which investigated the role of infectious, environment, and genetic factors in common cancers (leukemia, lymphoma, neuroblastoma, and brain tumors). From the data, researchers identified 3,102 control mothers, and 437 mothers whose children had developed a brain tumor. These mothers were interviewed via phone over their use of pesticides in and around the home during their pregnancy. Scientists determined that use of pesticides in the home put children at 40% increased risk of brain tumors, with insecticides being specifically linked to this increase. Because […]

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