​Join us for a special online guest talk with Dr. Dario Fornara, Research Director of the European Regenerative Organic Center (EROC) in Parma, Italy.

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📢 Bhutan is crafting a bold Agroecology roadmap, building on its organic roots and embracing a food systems approach.

🎙️ Learn more in this interview with Chhimi Dorji: tinyurl.com/mt6ub8hr

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Carrot hills to help the carrots grow straight and long!

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Transplanting and seeding will start soon!  Stay tuned 😊 2/2

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By the time storage veg is done, we'll be out in the fields getting local season started. It's almost time folks! Can't wait 😁 2/2

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UA studies look at organic cotton Arizona Ph.D. student explores organic cotton as summer crop for desert vegetable farmers, addressing challenges in ginning, defoliation, and water availability.

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UN Again Calls for Action as Biodiversity Deterioration Worsens Worldwide - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, December 9, 2022) Representatives from more than 195 countries have descended on Montreal for the December 7 start of COP15 — the United Nation’s (UN’s) Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The UN Development Programme sets out the context for this summit: “Despite ongoing efforts, biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide, and this decline is projected to worsen with business-as-usual. The loss of biodiversity comes at a great cost for human well-being and the global economy.” Beyond Pesticides has documented many aspects of this decline in biodiversity, and the implications for ecosystem, human, and planetary health. In this COP15 context, the data points to the importance of broad adoption of organic regenerative / agroecological systems, which can very significantly address the interactive health, biodiversity, and climate crises. Close on the heels of November’s UN COP27 summit on climate, COP15 has commenced, with the goal of adopting a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (CBF) to provide “a strategic vision and a global roadmap for the conservation, protection, restoration, and sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystems for the next decade.” The first such summit was called the Convention on Biological Diversity and was held in 1993. Out of […]

The #UN Development Programme's context for #COP15 #Montreal summit on #biodiversity: “Despite ongoing efforts, #biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide, and this decline is projected to worsen with business-as-usual." #agroecology #organic #organicAg

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Fungicide Use Harms Beneficial Soil Life, Jeopardizes Crop Yields - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, October 25, 2022) Fungicide use harms soil and jeopardizes crop yields by reducing the prevalence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), according to recent research published in Nature Ecology and Evolution. AMF are important fungi that form symbiotic relationships with plants in both natural and cropland soils, and their presence helps facilitate nutrient uptake, particularly for phosphorus. With global phosphorus supplies dwindling and persistent pollution problems from the nutrient, practices that enhance the presence of AMF in cropland soils will be critical for the future of farming worldwide. Scientists set out to better understand the conditions that promote AMF’s ability to transfer phosphorus (P) to plants by considering climate and soil characteristics, soil type, and agricultural practices. To start, samples were taken from 150 cropland soils and 60 natural grassland soils in various countries throughout Europe. Environmental data and soil samples were collected for each location, as were past management practices for the cropland sites, which generally all grew cereal grains like wheat, oats or barley. To understand the P transfer rates of AMF hyphae, scientists grew the plant Plantago lanceolata in the collected soils in a greenhouse, utilizing the radioisotope 33P in order to achieve a real-time view […]

#Fungicide use reduces arbuscular mycorrhizal #fungi (AMF) in #soil, important fungi that form symbiotic relationships with plants. They help facilitate nutrient uptake, particularly for #phosphorus. #crops #pesticides #EPAfail #organicAg #organic #EPA

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Groups Worldwide Tell UN To Rescind Agreement with Chemical Industry for Human Rights Violations - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, June 17, 2022) Hundreds of civil society groups and organizations of indigenous people worldwide have called on the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to end its nearly two-year-old partnership with CropLife International, the trade association for the world’s largest pesticide manufacturers. The organizations’ June 9 letter to the Member State Representatives of the FAO Council was signed by 430 entities, from 69 different countries. The letter asserts that the UN agency’s agreement with CropLife International (CLI) is incompatible with FAO’s obligations to uphold human rights, and urges it both to review the partnership agreement on the basis of human rights concerns, and to “consider directing the Director-General of FAO to rescind the agreement.” The call comes from this huge group of advocates, but it is also coming from “inside the house”: UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri is one of the signatories; Beyond Pesticides is one among 65 U.S. signatories. CropLife International’s corporate members — BASF, Bayer, Corteva, FMC, Sumitomo Chemical, and Syngenta — are huge synthetic pesticide companies with global reach. CLI also counts as members 11 subsidiary national associations in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, Canada, and the […]

100s of civil society groups & organizations of i#ndigenous people worldwide have called on the #UN #FAO to end partnership with CropLife International, trade assn for world’s largest #pesticidemanufacturers. #pesticides #organicAg #glyphosate #paraquat

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