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Controversial pesticides also kill birds

Newsroom E&F | July 15, 2014

Neonicotinoïds, the pesticides most commonly used worldwide, are not only partly responsible for mass bee deaths. They now seem also harmful to insect eating birds. Bird populations were

Agriculture

Research shows significant nutritional advantages of organic food

Newsroom E&F | July 12, 2014

New research from Newcastle University, to be published on Tuesday 15 July, in the British Journal of Nutrition, has shown that organic crops and crop-based foods – including fruit,