Pesticides

The battle over Europe’s pesticide overhaul highlights competing interests on both sides of the Mediterranean. Scientists and civic activists complain about lobbyists for agrochemical companies and farming organisations...

Brussels’s promise of closer economic ties with Africa is colliding with its drive to protect European farmers. Proposed changes to pesticide-residue limits could force African farmers to change...

The European Union’s agricultural trade relationship with Africa has long been unequal but its double standards have sunk to absurd depths. Brussels allows European-based companies to export more...