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Understanding and lowering pesticide-related risks is critical to safeguarding human health, conserving ecosystems, and maintaining long-term food security. Although it …
Better Cotton has changed farming techniques (behaviors) that in turn, among other social benefits, decreased the amount of water used per hectare when cultivating cotton (climate…
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About a year ago, on January 25, 2024, volunteers stumbled upon a multitude of dead and dying monarch butterflies that were scattered across the lawn of a private prope…
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Has anyone seen any effective campaigns seeking to get public support behind the use of pesticides? New Zealand is in the pos…
We are having a problem with chinch bugs throughtout our town. The birds are digging up the lawns and green spaces searching for this food source. Does anyone have a solution to…
Greetings. The Town of Canmore has a goal stating that "50% of the community voluntarily reports they are pesticide free". I am working with a local non-profit (the Pink and Gre…
we will be conducting on-farm research with four conventional farmers on moving from a corn-soybean rotation to a three-year rotation that reduces chemical inputs. These farmers w…
This paper examines the epistemic barriers to sustainable agriculture, which are those aspects of food production that are not readily revealed by direct perception: such as decre…
This article explores how environmental regulation may be improved through the use of community-based social marketing techniques. While regulation is an important tool of sustain…
More and More provinces are banning the non-essential sale and use of pesticide - more specifically lawn care and landscaping uses.
Steven Conway
Program Coordinator
Nova Scot…
