The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently announced their intention to deepen their collaboration with CropLife International, a trade association whose member corporations specialize in pesticides and associated biotechnology products such as genetically modified seeds. We’ve joined with several global networks and organizations to call on FAO’s Director-General not to move forward with this plan to deepen its alliance with the pesticide/biotech industry, an alliance that runs counter to FAO’s mission and undermines the agency’s own commitment to phase out highly hazardous pesticides and support agroecological farming around the world : Read More….
