Categorie: Policy

Environment Pesticides Policy

Global analysis shows how pesticides leach into the environment

27 juli 2023 Door Luisa Low

Pesticides travel far after initial agricultural application A University of Sydney led study published today in Nature has revealed the chemical odyssey pesticides embark upon after their initial agricultural application, with environmental consequences for a range of ecosystems. About three million tonnes of agricultural pesticides are used across the globe each year, yet little is […]

Biodiversity Policy Policy Policy making

Vision of plant vitality science

25 juni 2020 Door Kitty de Jager

Translated and edited by Jitte Daalmeijer. The future plant pathology The opinion article by J. C. Zadoks (whom I still tend to call my professor) in the most recent edition of Gewasbescherming, the newsletter of the Royal Netherlands Society of Plant Pathology (KNPV) was the extra push I needed to write this article. It were […]