Sentences with phrase «of these agrochemicals in»

The ones that come from Central America grow in soils with a lot of agrochemicals in them.

This guide explores issues relating to 100 % fruit juices including the welfare of fruit growers, the use of agrochemicals in the fruit growing industry, and the climate impact of packaging and shipping.

Not exact matches

The Bayer and Monsanto merger is the latest of a trio of mega-deals in the agrochemical industry in the last years.

A series of proposed megamergers in the global agrochemicals and seed industries — capped by Bayer's record $ 66 billion cash bid for Monsanto — raise fears of a pricing monopoly in the farm - supply industry and threat to the global food supply.

Much of this chocolate is organic more or less by default, as many smallholders, especially in the Pacific region, simply do not use agrochemicals.

Yesterday, five judges of the International Tribunal against Monsanto stated in their advisory opinion that the corporation «has engaged in practices which have negatively impacted the right to a healthy environment, the right to food, and the right to health» citing its widespread dissemination of dangerous agrochemicals in industrial agriculture, the introduction and release of GM crops, and introduction of persistent organic pollutants such as PCB in the environment.

Speaking from the ongoing Organic World Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, Dr. Medina claimed that only the giant agrochemical companies benefit from the profits of GMO seeds and chemical inputs, while leaving the smallholder and family farmers poorer and hungrier.

Monsanto is no. 1 in biotech seed sales controlling 27 % of GMO seed sales and no. 4 in agrochemical sales controlling 10 % of global sales.

Monsanto, a US - based company is now the biggest agrochemical giant in the world controlling almost a quarter of the global proprietary seed market.

All CHOC Chick ingredients are free from agrochemicals and pesticides, we are Soil Association Organic certified and our cacao is sourced directly from cooperatives of farmers in Ecuador.

Adapted for the food and beverage industry and also non-food industries such as automotive, agrochemical and pharmaceutical, these innovations show many advantages in terms of shelf life, cost, sustainability and consumer convenience.

In the face of formidable threats — deforestation, soil erosion, and water pollution from toxic agrochemicals — the government and private sector have turned to the Rainforest Alliance to help safeguard the future of Ceylon tea, which accounts for 19 percent of the global tea supply.

Training such a vast number of farmers in sustainable farming methods and persuading them to stop using agrochemicals they've depended on for decades would seem a formidable mission to even the most seasoned field expert.

The benefits of organic farming include the guardianship of our natural land resources, native plants, wildlife, insects, and birds, the development and conservation of natural ecosystems and a reduction in the nitrate and agrochemical pollution of our countryside and water courses.

It has also been found that the quality of water is better in organic rice cultivations (in terms of dissolved nutrients and presence of residual agrochemicals), so organic agriculture is beneficial not only to the rice system, but to all living species and habitats present in the Ebro Delta.

A major transformation took place in the 1970s when nearly all plantations began the use of agrochemicals and shade trees were removed to help prevent the spread of coffee rust.

Such rearrangements are now a staple of organic chemists in both academia and industry for the production of everything from pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals to pheromones and polymers.

Fluorine is also found in many agrochemicals, and about 20 - 30 % of modern pharmaceuticals, ranging from antimalarial and cytostatic drugs to inhalation anesthetics, blood substitutes, and liquid ventilation agents.

«The really clear thing is the importance of precision agriculture, in which agrochemicals are used as efficiently as possible, with as little runoff as possible.»

«We have an obligation to understand the potential health effects in people,» counters Ray McAllister, a vice president of CropLife America, also in Washington, D.C., which lobbies for the agrochemical industry.

Palladium catalysts are used to form an array of chemical compounds in pharmaceuticals, plastics, agrochemicals, and many other industries.

The first outbreak in Britain of the bee disease varroasis, now taking a hold in southwest England, has prompted the government to waive its lengthy vetting arrangements for the licensing of new agrochemicals.

Chemists at The University of Texas at Arlington have devised a safer, more environmentally friendly, less expensive and more efficient water - based system for the synthesis of organic compounds typically used in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, cosmetics, plastics, textiles and household chemicals.

Drivers that have been associated with these declines include, but are not limited to, socioeconomic concerns (e.g. agricultural intensification), invasive pests and / or pathogens (e.g. Varroa, Nosema), agrochemicals (e.g. neonicotinoids) and a decline in genetic diversity of bee populations and food sources (e.g. over-reliance on one floral source)[11 — 17].

In agricultural landscapes it is expected that honey bees would be exposed to both of these agrochemicals.

In the 2016 edition of the «clean fifteen» agricultural products free from agrochemical (pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides) contamination, onions were ranked 6th.

The increase in acne nutrients is not substantial, but it's a welcome bonus on top of the main goal of avoiding inflammatory agrochemical contamination.

A new study about the harmful effects of Glyphosate is lending weight to 2012 Goldman Prize recipient Sofia Gatica's campaign to stop the indiscriminate spraying of toxic agrochemicals in Argentina and... Read More

Sofia Gatica, 2012 Goldman Prize winner and co-founder of the Mothers of Ituzaingo, recently participated in a massive march supporting a lawsuit against Monsanto, a massive agrochemical company whose indiscriminate... Read More

This would allow companies like Monsanto (indirectly represented in ALEC through its membership in CropLife America, an agrochemical front group and ALEC energy task force member) to bottleneck regulations of their GMO seeds and products at the state government level and stop community resistance to their abusive patent laws and enforcement through lawsuits.

Agave thrives in semi-arid wastelands — 50 % of Mexico — needs no watering or agrochemicals, requires very scarce field labor and grows well in any type of soil, even highly degraded and steep terrains, because it takes nitrogen from the air.

Coulson has a broad - based intellectual property practice for clients in a range of industries including oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, electronics, and industrial machinery.

The Firm represented China National Agrochemical Corporation («CNAC») in connection with its acquisition by way of merger of 60 % of outstanding shares in Makhteshim Agan Industries Ltd., an Israeli company listed on Tel - Aviv Stock Exchange

We have particular knowledge of the law relating to agrochemicals and the pesticide regulation system in England and Europe; extensive experience of the sensitive and careful management required in family business disputes and proven expertise in proceedings based on the Hotel Proprietors Act.

Simon Fitzpatrick, a partner in the Commercial Litigation team at Boodle Hatfield, who led the case with support from Associate Sarah Latham, adds: «This is a complicated and technical area of law relating to what is and what isn't a vertebrate study and subsequently what happens to data submitted in support of authorisation of agrochemicals.