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"Time to Deal with Pesticide Risks in California's Coastal Communities"
A precendent-setting lawsuit involving chemical trespass is won by an organic farmer, triggering a one million dollar damage award from Western Farm Services.

 

"Pesticides in Food: Flying Blind"
Chuck Benbrook's cover story in the September 2008 issue of "Sound Consumer," the newsletter of the PCC Natural Markets Inc. in Seattle, Washington, discusses the consequences of the Bush Administration's decision to allow the USDA's pesticide use data program to die on the vine.

 

Statement by Supachai Pantichpakdi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD on Organic Farming
This compelling statement was made by the Secretary General of the United Nations Conferecne on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) at the 8th meeting of the International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture.