Karnataka bans endosulfan

State appeals to the Centre for a nationwide ban

Book Review

Accountability in the Pesticide Industry - A report based on a forum held at the Pocantico Conference Center . June 25-28, 2002 . Paper No 5

Other side of pesticides contamination

What a waste

Arsenic in groundwater

Importing Disaster

Pesticide ban lands Kerala in court

Cardamom planters, pesticide makers against the ban

Pesticide trap

India extensively uses pesticides banned globally, show RTI responses  

Hindustan Insecticides to resume work amidst pollution charges

Cancer state

Investment terror

Since the 1990s developing nations have been on a treaty spree, signing a vast number of bilateral and regional investment treaties to attract …

Europe to phase out major pesticides

EU decides to withdraw about 320 substances used in plant protection products - including pesticides, fungicides and herbicides - from markets by …

No one is cleaning up

25 years on, thousands of tonnes of hazardous waste is scattered around the Union Carbide factory

Can endosulfan be exported?

Supreme Court asks panel to explore possibilities of disposing of the pesticide  

SC extends endosulfan ban

Pesticide makers claim inbreeding, not endosulfan, causing health problems in Kasaragod  

PR companies give public face to corporate agenda

Rules and renegades

Pesticide regulations in India are lax. The industry has exploited the loopholes to corrupt the system. And the government has turned a blind eye …

'SLAPP'ed but will not submit

New endosulfan ploy

Industry is sidestepping issues by pitching the proposed UN ban on endosulfan as the battle between generics and patented pesticides

Industry's Nemesis

A report by the National Institute of Occupational Health nails endosulfan. Is that why the pesticide establishment wants to keep it under wraps?

Bad chemistry

Asbestos, agribusiness get a leg up

Why farmers remain uninformed about pesticides and their use

Manufacturers and state governments have done little to inform farmers about approved uses of pesticides and hazards of using illegal ones

A revolution gone awry

Easy access to agro-chemicals in Sri Lanka blamed for public health scare

Endosulfan: India in denial

Agriculture minister claims several states had asked him not to ban the pesticide

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