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    Pesticides
    Press release |

    Greens/EFA call for glyphosate-free future

    The Greens/EFA group has commissioned a new study on alternatives to glyphosate. The study, which has been produced by PAN Europe, will be published one day ahead of a vote in the European Parliament’s Environment Committee on an objection to the renewal of glyphosate’s EU licence. The resolution calls on the Commission not to extend the …
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    Video |

    A herbicide-free future

    Watch testimonies from farmers, fruit farmers and wine producers across Europe already successfully using ecological alternatives to the use of herbicides.
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    Event |

    A fair food and agriculture policy

    How can we really feed the world in a sustainable way? Why is there still hunger on the planet? How to achieve a policy that is fair to EU farmers and non EU farmers ? How to set up a fair system to communities and developing rural areas? All those questions will be debated with high-level speakers, stakeholders and experts
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    Video |

    Agroecology explained to children

    Our current food and agricultural system isn't sustainable. Increasingly we get locked in a global production model with high social and environmental costs, mainly in the form of a rapid degradation of biodiversity. There is an urgent need to rethink the global food system. Agroecology is the path towards a more sustainable agricultural …
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    News |

    Plans to deregulate new GMOs continue apace

    The issue of new GMOs and whether they should be regulated, or not, has been in the spotlight recently with a high-level event organised by the Commission and a hearing at the EU Court of Justice. A clear outcome of these debates is that the right of citizens to decide which technologies should be used and in which conditions, is absolut…
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    Press release |

    Greens/EFA nominee Aura Lolita Chávez on shortlist

    The European Parliament’s foreign affairs and development committees have today agreed on the shortlist for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought for 2017.
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    Glyphosate
    Video |

    Monsanto's Tricks

    The Monsanto Papers are secret, internal documents that have now been made public thanks to over 10,000 farmers who have taken Monsanto to court, accusing the company's glyphosate weedkillers of causing them to develop a cancer called non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.
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    Video |

    New GMOS

    with Bart STAES, Greens/EFA MEP, Dr. Ricarda STEINBRECHER, molecular geneticist and developmental biologist, Daniel EVAIN, French federation of organic farmers and Franziska ACHTERBERG , Greenpeace
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    Video |

    Monsanto Papers : proof of scientific falsification

    with Michèle RIVASI, Greens/EFA MEP, Kathryn FORGIE, Attorney / Avocate, Cabinet Andrus Wagstaff and Carey GILLAM, journalist, Research Director U.S. Right to Know
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    Glyphosate
    Press release |

    EFSA's evaluation of glyphosate no longer valid - Bart Staes

    Greens/EFA MEP Bart Staes has called on European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Director Bernhard Url and EU governments to re-consider the evaluation of glyphosate due to serious concerns that the agency mishandled its analysis of the safety of glyphosate.