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Bill Gates plays God in Africa’s agriculture and gets it wrong
Agra’s drive for a ‘green revolution’ has reduced crop diversity, created a dependency on commercial seeds and fertiliser and increased vulnerability to drought
![, on February 8 – Soybean fields in Argentina are often fumigated with glyphosate, a herbicide which is probably carcinogenic according to the World Health Organization (WHO), but which is needed to maintain crops of transgenic seeds. The first trial for the possible effects of Round Up -Monsanto’s polemic herbicide containing gliphosate- starts on July […]](https://images.newsteam.io/image/2560/2Bq28FuGKoK2F2CChPZk9XLRvWmk7bCJ7BDwQEtECF83QFqDSoKW6D5RsqqXnAm76Dg5frRpcPqDkmtX61UM34knyWhbmMrDmTAWUN6nrY98GKzt9VT2AK2tUSj28x9QQJk53hq28GrHzyQkajYgVCv)
EU ships banned bee-killing pesticides to South Africa and other countries
Neonicotinoid, manufactured by Syngenta and Beyer, is banned in the European Union because it kills pollinators and causes other environmental harms
Pesticide lobby in sly bid to self-licence
NGOs warn that letting a lobbyist for pesticide firms regulate the scientists who conduct safety tests is putting a ‘fox in charge of the henhouse’