POISONOUS GROUNDWATER

Sweet poison

High levels of pesticides in fruits in the US could harm children

Buckling down

In its pamphlet, the EPA underplays the health risks due to pesticides

Popping situation

OBSOLETE PESTICIDES

Ethiopia

Implicated again

Pesticides cause Parkinson's disease

South Asia

Cool stuff?

Farmers concoct pesticides out of colas

Under fire

EPA sued for soft-pedalling

Pest attack

Complementarity begets productivity

ORGANIC farming technologies involve adaptation to local environments. Continuing the series on organic farming (See Down To Earth, November 30, …

Pesticide use results in dwindling exports

Despite restrictions on harmful pesticides, their use by farmers continues. This is forcing foreign countries to reduce imports substantially of …

Working wonders with neem

There has recently been a flurry of international activity centred around the versatile neem.

Research without change

Robert Repetto and Sanjay Baliga quote a number of studies carried out by Indians in India and abroad on the impact of pesticides on the immune …

Spraying poison

Despite a government ban on use of some common pesticides in agriculture, our food continues to be contaminated. The there-is-no-alternative …

Plagued plantations

Farmers in the Peruvian highlands learn that all's not well with their produce, land and health

Limp-frogging

Increasing deformities in frogs attributed to pesticide exposure, which makes them susceptible to parasite infection

Half-baked

Why should progress be putrid?

What a waste

Operation pest guard

Integrated pest management treatments come to the rescue of cotton farmers

Illogical theory?

Use of pesticides is responsible for the arsenic crisis

Forearmed

Smelly pesticides